Near field communication with Android cookbook : discover the endless possibilities of using Android NFC capabilities to enhance your apps over 50 practical recipes / Vitor Subtil ; Ravaji Babu, cover image.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Subtil, Vitor, author.

Contributor:

Babu, Ravaji, cover designer.

Series:

Quick answers to common problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Android (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Subtil Vitor: Vitor Subtil has been a web developer since 2009 and has been working with ASP. NET, C#, Oracle, and FluentNhibernate in the development of Enterprise Management applications. He started using MVC and SOA quite recently. He is currently pursuing his final year graduate studies in Computer Engineering, where he got introduced to the NFC technology and became a fan thereafter. He is enthusiastic about new technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and Android. He loves using the JQuery framework for JavaScript programming and uses new features of HTML5 such as OfflineStorage, the History API, and Canvas. His current focus is on developing Android applications.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with NFC; Introduction; Requesting NFC permissions; Indicating that your app uses NFC; Defining minimal requirements; Verifying whether the device has an NFC adapter; Downloading Open NFC Android Edition; Downloading Open NFC SDK Edition; Configuring the Open NFC Android add-on into your Android SDK; Configuring an NFC-enabled testing AVD; Configuring the Connection Center tool; Testing your app all together; Chapter 2: Detecting a Tag; Introduction

Understanding the foreground dispatch systemUnderstanding the tag dispatch system; Verifying if your app started because of an NFC intent; Filtering tags by their content type; Filtering tags by their content type programmatically; Filtering tags by their technology; Filtering tags by their technology using programs; Filtering URI tags; Chapter 3: Writing Tag Content; Introduction; Working with the NDEF record; Writing a URI-formatted record; Writing a text-formatted record; Using Android Application Record (AAR); Working with external types; Working with custom mimes

Chapter 4: Writing Tag Content - Real-life ExamplesIntroduction; Making a phone call with one tap - Part 1; Sending a predefined SMS - Part 1; Visiting our website; Leaving a (small) note - Part 1; Chapter 5: Reading Tag Content; Introduction; Obtaining the NDEF Message from Intent; Getting the data out of the message; Reading a text-formatted record; Reading a URI-formatted record; Reading external types; Reading custom mimes; Chapter 6: Reading Tag Content - Real-life Examples; Introduction; Making a phone call with one tap - Part 2; Sending a predefined SMS - Part 2

Leaving a (small) note - Part 2Getting the tag information; Chapter 7: Sharing Content across Devices; Introduction; Creating a basic peer-to-peer Hello World application; Sending texts to other devices; Sending a friend invite on Facebook; Inviting a friend to play a game - Part 1; Chapter 8: Error Handling and Content Validation; Introduction; Handling tag-writing errors; Handling tag-reading errors; Testing the tag data for integrity; Chapter 9: Extending NFC; Introduction; Turning other adapters on/off; Configuring a Wi-Fi network; Starting a Wi-Fi hotspot

Inviting a friend to play a game - Part 2Controlling hotel room access with Arduino and NFC - Part 1; Controlling hotel room access with Arduino and NFC - Part 2; Chapter 10: Real-life Examples - NFC Utilities; Introduction; Creating multi-action tags; Choosing the best format for our data; Locking tags; Joking with a friend; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 3, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783289660

178328966X

OCLC:

881509698