NFC For Dummies

NFC For Dummies
Your no-nonsense guide to Near Field Communication
Are you a newcomer to Near Field Communication and baffled by the scant documentation and online support available for this powerful new technology? You've come to the right place! Written in a friendly and easily accessible manner, NFC For Dummies takes the intimidation out of working with the features of NFC-enabled devices and tells you exactly what it is and what it does—and doesn't do.

NFC is revolutionizing the way people interact on a daily basis. It enables big data and cloud-based computing through mobile devices and can be used by anyone with a smartphone or tablet every day! Soon to be as commonplace as using Wi-Fi or the camera on your smartphone, NFC is going to forever change the way we interact with people and the things around us. It simplifies the sending and receiving of information, makes monetary transactions simple and secure—Apple Pay already uses NFC—and is a low-cost product to manufacture and use. As more developers create apps with NFC, you're going to see it used regularly—everywhere from cash registers to your social media accounts to electronic identity systems. Don't get left behind; get up to speed on NFC today!

• Provides a plain-English overview of NFC
• Covers the history and technology behind NFC
• Helps you make sense of IoT and powered chips
• Explains proximity technologies and non-payment applications

Whether you're a developer, investor, or a mobile phone user who is excited about the capabilities of this rapidly growing technology, NFC For Dummies is the reference you'll want to keep close at hand!

Near Field Communication with Android Cookbook

Discover the endless possibilities of using Android NFC capabilities to enhance your apps over 50 practical recipes

Near Field Communication with Android Cookbook

Overview

• Practical and real-life examples showing how and where NFC can be used
• Discover how to exploit NFC capabilities to enhance your apps to easily share and interact with the world
• Learn how to extend cross-device content sharing by taking advantage of Android Beam's capabilities

In Detail

Near Field Communication, or simply NFC, is an emerging technology with endless applicability. Its low battery consumption and simplicity are the keys to its success.

Near Field Communication with Android Cookbook is a hands-on book that will help you to set up your development environment, get to know the basics of NFC, and then use what you learn to create more enhanced and practical applications. This practical guide will teach you all you need know about NFC to get you started in developing outstanding out-of-the-box applications.

What you will learn from this book

• Work with the foreground dispatch system NFC data exchange format
• Create several applications to consolidate knowledge and see what NFC can be used for
• Read and write tags with URI, text, mime, and external types
• Share content across two NFC-enabled devices
• Extend NFC usage using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
• Combine NFC with social networks and games
• Use Open NFC for Android to set up a virtual development and testing environment

Approach

An easy-to-follow guide, full of hands-on examples of and real-world applications. Each recipe is explained and placed in context.

Who this book is written for

If you want to learn how to create NFC-enabled Android applications, this is the book for you. Perhaps you already know a bit about Android application developments but have never used NFC, or perhaps you know a little about NFC android development but want some more advanced features and examples. In either case, this book will get you up and running quickly. You are expected to have Android programming knowledge.

Beginning NFC: Near Field Communication with Arduino, Android, and PhoneGap

Beginning NFC: Near Field Communication with Arduino, Android, and PhoneGap

Jump into the world of Near Field Communications (NFC), the fast-growing technology that lets devices in close proximity exchange data, using radio signals. With lots of examples, sample code, exercises, and step-by-step projects, this hands-on guide shows you how to build NFC applications for Android, the Arduino microcontroller, and embedded Linux devices.

You’ll learn how to write apps using the NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) in PhoneGap, Arduino, and node.js that help devices read messages from passive NFC tags and exchange data with other NFC-enabled devices. If you know HTML and JavaScript, you’re ready to start with NFC.

• Dig into NFC’s architecture, and learn how it’s related to RFID
• Write sample apps for Android with PhoneGap and its NFC plugin
• Dive into NDEF: examine existing tag-writer apps and build your own
• Listen for and filter NDEF messages, using PhoneGap event listeners
• Build a full Android app to control lights and music in your home
• Create a hotel registration app with Arduino, from check-in to door lock
• Write peer-to-peer NFC messages between two Android devices
• Explore embedded Linux applications, using examples on Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone