Why Android 1st?

Hi Everyone! The Beaconeer™ for Android has been on Amazon Appstore and Google Play over a week now. It's great to see that many of you have downloaded the app. We really do welcome your feedback, pro or con. We rely on it to develop and release the iPhone version in October. 

 Why did we release Android 1st? So glad you asked. Truth be told, The Beaconeer™ for Android was much easier to code, using nice and colorful AppInventor, compared to Apple’s “alpha-numeric soup” called “X Code/Swift. (see example below- it’s scary and unforgiving, but not impossible!) 

 Also, we're not Red Hat or SAS, with deep pockets and staff to do both apps concurrently. We’re just two grassroots people, determined to launch an app we believe in!!! 

 The best is yet to come! Have a "Green Beacon" the rest of your week, all! #beaconeer#GPS #SMS #whosaidshecouldnt


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