Hi all,
I am new here and have only spent very little time developing for iOS using Xamarin. I will build a small POC using the Estimote beacons and I have a few questions.
From the Estimote web site I learned the little beacons are really iBeacons, which led me to believe I could simply use the normal CoreLocation classes, such as CLLocationManager, and listen to its events. Those events are never triggered however. The fact Estimote bothered to publish an SDK is a hint they're beacons aren't quite that simple to work with after all.
I then saw that Woutercx has written a binder project to encapsulate the Estimote SDK (https://github.com/woutercx/Xamarin-EstimoteBeacons). I downloaded the wrapper and sample project. Both seems to be working fine.
But my problem is that I prefer working in VS2012, with all my trusty tools, such as Resharper. If I open Woutercx's solution in VS2012 I can compile but VS2012 doesn't properly recognize the SDK wrapper for some reason, which negates all intellisense of course. It all builds ok but it will be a real hassle developing bigger solutions.
Any hints on how to move ahead would be appreciated. Is there any point trying to hang on to VS at using Xamarin while developing for Estimote beacons!
Cheers