Beginning NFC near field communication with arduino, android & phonegap by Igoe, Tom -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Beginning NFC Dedication 1. Introduction

Who This Book Is For Recommended Reading What’s Covered in This Book What You’ll Need

Hardware Software Other Useful NFC Apps

Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

2. NFC and RFID

What’s RFID? What’s NFC? How RFID Operates

RFID Standards

How NFC Operates

NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF)

The Architecture of NFC

NFC Tag Types Where to Get Tags

Device-to-Tag Type Matching What You Can Do with NFC Conclusion

3. Getting Started with PhoneGap and the PhoneGap-NFC Library

Why Android? Hello, World! Your First PhoneGap App

Setting Up the Development Environment

Install the Android Platform Tools Install Node.js and npm Install Cordova CLI for PhoneGap

Creating a PhoneGap Project The Important Files

A Simple Locator App PhoneGap Meets NFC: NFC Reader

Installing the NFC Plug-In Writing the NFC Reader App Troubleshooting

Conclusion

4. Introducing NDEF

NDEF Structure

Type Name Format Payload Type

URIs in NDEF Messaging

Payload Identifier Payload

Record Layout

Record Header How Big Can an NDEF Message Be? Record Chunking Additional Info

NDEF in Practice A Tag Writer Application: Foursquare Check-In

Writing an NDEF Record to a Tag Writing Different Record Types PhoneGap-NFC NDEF Helper Functions, Summarized

Conclusion

5. Listening for NDEF Messages

PhoneGap-NFC’s Event Listeners An NDEF Reader Application

Listening for Multiple Events Reading the NDEF Messages Filtering Tags Using Record Types Filtering Using MIME-Types

Android’s Tag Dispatch System

Types of Intents Android Application Records

Conclusion

6. An NFC Application in Practice

The User Interaction Getting to Know Hue, Getting to Know All About Hue

The Hue Data Format The Hue’s REST API

The Android Shell The PhoneGap Media API The User Interface The Application Code

Housekeeping Functions Global Event Handlers Hub Communication Functions Lighting User Interface Event Handlers Music User Interface Event Handlers NFC Event Handlers Enabling Background Dispatch

Conclusion

7. Introduction to Arduino and NFC

Digital Meets Physical: Arduino The Hardware Heart of NFC The Arduino Development Environment

Serial Communication Installing Arduino Libraries

The Arduino NDEF Library

Reading NDEF in Arduino Writing NDEF in Arduino

A Microcontroller NFC Application: Hotel Key Cards

The Interaction and Data Format The Arduino NDEF Writer Device The Arduino NDEF Reader and Door Lock Device

A Browser Interface for the Arduino NDEF Writer Device

Node.js Application Specification: package.json The Client-Side Code The Server-Side Code

Conclusion

8. Peer-to-Peer Exchange

Sending Peer-to-Peer Messages in PhoneGap Receiving Peer-to-Peer Messages in PhoneGap Handover

Static Handover

Sending Handover Messages in PhoneGap Peer-to-Peer Using Arduino Card Emulation Conclusion

9. NFC on Embedded Systems

Introduction to Embedded Linux Devices and Package Managers

Network, USB, and NFC

NFC on Embedded Linux: The Overview Housekeeping Details

Get Comfortable with Your Editing Workflow Know Your Package Manager Set the Date and Time Make a Downloads Directory BeagleBone Peculiarities Raspberry Pi Peculiarities

Installing Node.js on the Raspberry Pi

Installing the Tools for NFC

Installing the Libusb Compatibility Library Installing libnfc

Raspberry Pi BeagleBone Black

Testing the Installation on Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Installing libfreefare

Libnfc and Libfreefare Command Line Tools NDEF Reading and Writing in Node.js Web Interface for Tag Writer Tags Controlling Physical Output

BeagleBone Version Raspberry Pi Version

Conclusion

A. NFC Specification Codes Index Colophon Copyright

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