About Beacon Simulator
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon simulator. This app transforms your Android device into a virtual BLE beacon advertiser and transmitter. You can create your own collection of beacon configurations and use them anytime,...
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon simulator.
This app transforms your Android device into a virtual BLE beacon advertiser and transmitter. You can create your own collection of beacon configurations and use them anytime, anywhere, to emulate a physical beacon.
Its purpose is essentially to help developers working on beacon software with more flexibility than with some real beacons.
Current features:
- Broadcast and advertise iBeacon, AltBeacon, Eddystone
- Eddystone support for: URL, UID, unencrypted TLM (telemetry), EID (Ephemeral ID)
- Create, edit, manage and save your beacon configurations
- Background broadcast
- Scan of nearby beacons, copy of their configuration
- Check tool to know how many broadcast is possible on your phone
- In English and French
Android limitations:
- the MAC address is automatically managed by Android, and will change for each new EID rotation
- not possible to broadcast several different frames with a same MAC address
- broadcast capability depends on your phone, you can use the check tool to know what is possible for you
Other limitations:
- TLM data are static in time
- Scan is not a main feature of the app for now, just an helper
Permissions are for:
- bluetooth: scan, broadcast using Bluetooth
- location: unfortunately, required by Android to perform a Bluetooth scan
- internet: for log collection in case of crashes and statistics about usage
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Beacon Simulator since it was posted on our website on 2016-10-04 18:44:51.
The latest version is 1.5.1 and it was updated on 2026-06-15 06:37:37. See below the changes in each version.
Beacon Simulator version 1.5.1
Updated At: 2019-03-23
Changes: IMPORTANT: this release is due to the suppression of the previous one by Google. It forces me to package it differently, and may introduce some bugs I am not aware of.
1.5.1
Attempt to fix a random crash at broadcast start.
1.5.0
- removed crash analysis tool to comply with the developer distribution agreement
- update to newer compilation SDK so the app can be deployed on the store again
- replaced Google URL shortener by Bit.ly shortener, due to end of maintenance by Google.
Beacon Simulator version 1.1.2
Updated At: 2016-07-25
Changes: Version 1.1.2,- rollback on the correction of the hyphen (harmless bug) since it can cause weird behaviors,Version 1.1.1,Fixed:,- Crash for some provided values in AltBeacon format,- Hyphen could sometimes not be deleted in iBeacon & AltBeacon text input,- Better selection zone to enable/disable broadcast
Disclaimer
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