physical-web

Create demos section with FatBeacon and Wi-Fi Direct demos Bug fixes Removed beacon configuration

This release of the Physical Web app has several new features we’re interested in discussing with the community. These features are exploratory and meant to invite discussion with the community.

Blocking and Starring in List View This allows users to ‘swipe away’ beacon URLs they no longer want to see. Any URL broadcast from that swiped away domain will no longer be shown. There is a men...

• Added URL broadcasting through Share intent
• Added option to change backend Physical Web Service
• Added Runtime permission support
• Added Google Physical Web Service option
• Added favicon caching
• Removed some dependence on uribeacon library

Web service:

• Added groupid to web service response

Android client:

• Fixed crash when scanning for mDNS beacons
• Disabled mDNS discovery for pre-M devices (improves battery life)
• Updated bluetooth adapter to use the system service local adapter
• Added error handling for device bluetooth support
• Added detection and URL shortening of non-ASCII URLs
• Exposed groupid in debug view

• Removed demo mode
• Removed the go link redirection
• Removed most of our dependence on the uribeacon library
• Added a metadata cache for faster display of URLs
• Added more robust short-url resolution
• Added more robust Eddystone-URL support
• Added more support for batch metadata requests
• Refactored code around a new PwoMetadata class