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David G. Young

davidgyoung
Washington DC and Miami FL

David cut his programming chops making games on a Commodore 64 and Apple II in the Westbrook Junior High School library. In recent years. he has focussed on Bluetooth LE beacons, leading the effort to move the technology beyond iOS with the widely used Android Beacon Library. He has worked as an independent consultant for 5 years, augmenting and maintaining the library as a volunteer side project.

Sponsorship is critical to improve the library with changes that require more than a casual time commitment:

  • Add better support for Kotlin including syntactic sugar, coroutines and data binding
  • Streamline the API to make it easier to use for the most common use cases and for novice users
  • Improve support for platform-specific differences, especially on less common phone models
  • Add support for Bluetooth 5 features like long range beaconing

Featured work

  1. AltBeacon/android-beacon-library

    Allows Android apps to interact with BLE beacons

    Java 2,813
  2. davidgyoung/OverflowAreaBeaconRef

    An iOS reference app for using the OverflowArea to transmit BLE beacons in the background

    Swift 12

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