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andijakl / ndef-nfc

NDEF Library for Proximity APIs / NFC
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Supported Devices #5

Closed tonydspaniard closed 9 years ago

tonydspaniard commented 9 years ago

I would like to ask what devices this library supports. I am currently searching for a solution to create a node app using node-webkit that reads/writes Tags using a http://www.acs.com.hk/en/products/3/acr122u-usb-nfc-reader reader.

Found an option by creating a Chrome App (https://www.npmjs.com/package/chrome-nfc) but I would rather create an app that doesn't require another app (Chrome) in order to be launch or used.

Any information would be highly appreciated.

andijakl commented 9 years ago

The library is essentially formatting the NDEF standard by the NFC Forum that is in use in most NFC tags and also in device-to-device communication. It can parse NDEF-based NFC tag contents, as well as create those contents.

As such, the library is not directly interfacing with the NFC hardware of a device - for this, you need to use the NFC drivers / APIs that your platform provides (e.g., the Proximity APIs of Windows).

In short: you use the platform APIs to read / write the raw NFC information, and the NDEF library to make sense of these bits & bytes.