How to read and write Android NFC tags?

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ogfasasi picture ogfasasi · Apr 5, 2011 · Viewed 58.2k times · Source

I followed some tutorial using the adam rocker source code for my NFCTest. I want to be able to read and write NFC tags and also launch an application.

Answer

ThomasRS picture ThomasRS · Aug 26, 2012

The NDEF Tools for Android utility project helps doing the following

  1. Detect, then
  2. Read or write, or
  3. Beam (push) NFC content

The project also includes data bindings for all standardized NDEF record types, which really simplifies things compared to working with the (byte-array-based) NDEF classes included in the Android SDK.

Also see the NFC Eclipse plugin for a graphical NDEF editor - comes with an utility app which reads and writes to tags and beams, also has NFC reader integration.

By the way, you are looking for the Android Application Record for launching the app. The launching 'feature' does not require any real implementation; it is built into Android >= 4.0, so putting that record on a tag is enough.

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