Near Field Communication with Android Cookbook

Book Description

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

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started with NFC
Chapter 2. Detecting a Tag
Chapter 3. Writing Tag Content
Chapter 4. Writing Tag Content – Real-life Examples
Chapter 5. Reading Tag Content
Chapter 6. Reading Tag Content – Real-life Examples
Chapter 7. Sharing Content across Devices
Chapter 8. Error Handling and Content Validation
Chapter 9. Extending NFC
Chapter 10. Real-life Examples – NFC Utilities

中文：

书名：Near Field Communication with Android Cookbook

了解使用Android NFC功能来增强您的应用程序的无限可能性超过50个实用食谱

Overview

• 展示如何使用NFC以及在何处使用NFC的实用和真实示例
• Discover how to exploit NFC capabilities to enhance your apps to easily share and interact with the world
• 了解如何利用Android Beam的功能扩展跨设备内容共享

In Detail

近场通信，或简称NFC，是一项具有无限适用性的新兴技术。它的低电池消耗和简单是其成功的关键。

近场通信与Android Cookbook是一本实践性的书籍，将帮助您设置您的开发环境，了解NFC的基础知识，然后使用您学到的东西来创建更多增强和实际的应用程序。本实用指南将教您所有您需要了解的关于NFC的知识，帮助您开始开发出色的开箱即用应用程序。

你将从这本书中学到什么

• 使用前台调度系统NFC数据交换格式
• 创建几个应用程序来整合知识，并了解NFC可用于哪些方面
• Read and write tags with URI, text, mime, and external types
• 在两个启用NFC的设备之间共享内容
• Extend NFC usage using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
• 将NFC与社交网络和游戏相结合
• 使用Open NFC for Android搭建虚拟开发测试环境

Approach

这是一本简单易懂的指南，里面充满了实际应用程序的实际操作示例。每个食谱都有解释，并放在上下文中。

Who this book is written for

如果你想学习如何创建支持NFC的安卓应用程序，这是一本适合你的书。也许你已经了解了一些Android应用程序的开发，但从未使用过NFC，或者你可能对NFC Android开发略知一二，但想要一些更高级的功能和示例。无论是哪种情况，这本书都会让你快速上手。你应该有Android编程知识。

Table of Contents

第1章：NFC入门
Chapter 2. Detecting a Tag
第三章编写标签内容
第4章：编写标签内容–真实的例子
Chapter 5. Reading Tag Content
第6章阅读标签内容–现实生活中的例子
第7章：跨设备共享内容
第8章.错误处理和内容验证
Chapter 9. Extending NFC
第10章.实际示例-NFC实用程序