Seeed-Studio / PN532

NFC library using PN532 to read/write card and communicate with android
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[Question] Which library should I be using? Confusing ReadMe file #89

Closed ThiagoRangel7 closed 4 years ago

ThiagoRangel7 commented 5 years ago

I'm starting to work with Arduino NFC Module V3 (by Elechouse) aiming to connect it to Android phones, but I'm really confused, because there are a lot of different Arduino NFC libraries out there.

Should I use this library (Seeed-Studio/PN532) or the other one called Seeed_Arduino_NFC?

Also, I noticed that the ReadMe file says that the "easy way" to get started is by downloading this library and Don's NDEF library, but, at the same time, there's the Seeed-Studio's Seeed_Arduino_NFC (mentioned above) which is forked from Don's NDEF and seems to be more up-to-date. Is the ReadMe file outdated?

These ReadMe files are really confusing, since each one points to other libraries, but none of them mentions the new Seeed_Arduino_NFC, which seems to include Don's and this library in just one library.

TL; DR: Which Arduino NFC Library should I use? Which one is more up-to-date?

Pillar1989 commented 5 years ago

@ThiagoRangel7
Thank you for your attention to PN532 software. The software on the market may be a little misleading, but we only maintain the following two software:

The PN532 library is basic software that I hope will be useful to non-arduino users.

Seeed_Arduino_NFC is the software we developed for Arduino users. It comes from Don. Examples can help Arduino get started with NFC application quickly