README: nfc-starter-apps
This repo contains 3 starter apps to kick off your NFC development for Android.
These apps were originally created for Professional Android Sensor Programming written by Greg Milette & Adam Stroud and published by Wrox Press, then forked from the book's Great Android Sensing Toolkit (GAST) library. I am the contributing author of Chapter 11: Near Field Communication (NFC) and a contributing co-author for Chapter 10: Android Open Accessory.
How to get started with NFC development
- In Eclipse, use the **File > Import > Existing Projects into Workspace ** option to import individual or all app projects into the current Eclipse workspace.
Simple NFC Inventory: Shows off basic reading and writing of NFC tags using NDEF formatting. Works on Gingerbread devices and up.
P2P NFC Inventory: Builds off of SimpleNFCInventory by adding peer-to-peer support. Use this for pre-ICS devices (e.g. Gingerbread), otherwise use BeamNFCInventory.
Beam NFC Inventory: Builds off of SimpleNFCInventory by adding peer-to-peer support using the new ICS (Android 4.0) Beam APIs.
To learn more about NFC
- Read the book: Professional Android Sensor Programming (Note: Does not cover any new NFC features included in Jelly Bean since it was published before Google I/O 2012.)
- Flip through a non-technical and short presentation on NFC that I created for FITC: Toronto 2012
- Keep an eye out for another Peanut Butter & Code Jam focussed on NFC or Android.
- I also do full-day workshops like this one for FITC SCREENS 2012
- For news on upcoming workshops and events, you can sign up for my mailing list. I can also do private/corporate training -- please contact me if you are intersted!
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License
All the code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE.txt for license details.