iBeacon
iBeacon adds indoor location awareness capabilities to your app and opens a new world of possibilities. From optimizing your location-based marketing tactics and in-store customer experiences to ensuring your employees clock into work at the right place at the right time, there is no limit to the opportunities for interactivity between your app and beacon devices.
iBeacon is a technology offered by Apple that utilizes industry-standard Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication using transmitters, commonly known as beacons. These fixed-place beacons broadcast data that allows your app to trigger actions when your users come into close proximity. And here's the best part: iBeacon isn't limited to just Apple devices! It works seamlessly on Android devices too, making it universally compatible.
Integrate iBeacon into your app today and unlock a host of features. Engage and retain your users with personalized offers as they travel through a retail store, provide location specific information at a large conference facility, and make available location-based notifications such as travel announcements.
Whether your application caters to retail, workplace productivity, hotels, museums, events and conferences, or any other location-bound service, iBeacon has the power to elevate it to new heights. Embrace iBeacon and bring your app to the forefront of location-based innovation.
Key features
Location awareness and verification:
Unlock location-specific features or verify location when users provide data, whether security patrol checkpoints or “clocking in” on a shift.
Personalized engagement:
Drive user retention by delivering personalized offers and information, creating a tailored and immersive experience for your app users.
Seamless compatibility:
Maximize the impact of your location-aware app with full support for both Apple and Android devices.
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The Median App Studio will build your app within minutes. You’ll then be able to preview your app immediately in our browser-based simulators or download to test on a physical device. Once you’ve finished configuring your app you can then publish to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Looking to have our team develop and publish your app? Typically we can have your app developed and published to the app stores within two weeks.
Yes! The Median platform works with all website development platforms. Your app will display your website content as it is displayed in a mobile web browser such as Mobile Safari or Mobile Chrome.
We have many customers who develop their web content using Wordpress, Weebly, Wix, Webflow, and more. And customers who build web applications to deploy as web apps using Microsoft .NET and SharePoint, Salesforce Lightning, Bubble.io.
Most websites will display within apps created using Median automatically. To build highly immersive native apps as a web developer use the Median JavaScript Bridge to add a range of native functionality
- Change the app status bar color dynamically to match your web content and branding
- Add native navigation menus such as a native bottom tab bar menu
- Adjust the device screen brightness when displaying a QR code for other devices to scan
- Prevent the device screen from timing out and going to sleep when showing long form content for the user to read
Apps built using Median are much more than a wrapper app. The Median platform allows you to build an app with advanced native functionality and features. You can add native navigation menus, native push notifications (with OneSignal and other push providers), and incorporate our premium native plugins such as Face ID / Touch ID Biometric authentication, Social Login, QR/Barcode scanner, In-App Purchases, and much more.
When building your app you'll also benefit from the Median build platform which has been supported and maintained since early 2014. As iOS and Android changes are released you can rebuild your app using the Median App Studio to maintain compatibility while avoiding the overhead that comes from maintaining your own code base.
All changes made to your website will be reflected immediately in your app similarly to how they are reflected immediately in a standard mobile browser. Native apps built using Median obey the same cache headers as a standard browser. If you are experiencing delays seeing your updated website reflected in your app you should verify the cache headers that are being sent by your web server and review potential solutions in our documentation.
There is no cost to build a Median Free app. When published to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store your app will display a small "Powered by Median.co" message at launch and the JavaScript Bridge will not be available for advanced integration.
To build a completely white label app with full JavaScript Bridge capabilities a Median Professional license can be purchased directly within our App Studio on the Licence tab or on our website at https://median.co/pricing.
In addition to the app license, we offer a variety of optional add-ons and services. These include:
- Push Notifications using our integration with OneSignal or through other push notification providers.
- Native Plugins that provide access to a range of device functionality and third-party services.
- A Full-Service Concierge service, where our team handles and completes all app development work to produce a publish-ready app using the Median platform.
- An App Store Publishing service, where our team completes all steps that are required to publish your app to the app stores and guarantees successful approval
- Custom development to extend the Median platform to integrate third-party SDKs and add advanced functionality for your specific use case
- And more!
Yes! So long as your app meets the applicable Apple and Google requirements you will not face any issues publishing your app to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Our Publishing Guide contains all of the information you will need to self-publish your app.
You can also use our experienced team to handle the publishing end-to-end and make the process as seamless as possible. When using our team we provide a 100% guarantee of app store acceptance.
Whether you choose to self-publish or have our team publish on your behalf you will need an Apple Developer Account and a Google Play Developer Account. You can apply for both accounts using the links below.
- Apple Developer Account: https://developer.apple.com/programs/enroll
- Google Play Developer Account: https://play.google.com/apps/publish/signup