Hi Alistair, I'm attempting to get into NFC on Android by communicating with a custom > PN532 device, however I'm a little confused as to my options and the > Android protocol. > > - NFCIP-1, is it possible to place my device as a target into this > mode, for Android to automatically detect and communicate with to load an > app > > Android's foreground NDEF push/beam is based on NFCIP-1 (+ LLCP), so you can exchange NDEF messages between an Android device and the PN532 in peer-to-peer mode. See http://code.google.com/p/ismb-snep-java/ (or the older http://code.google.com/p/ismb-npp-java/ ) for an example of how to communicate with Android apps in peer-to-peer mode. The ACR122U that is used in this examples contains a PN532, so it should be easy to adapt them to your custom PN532 device.
> > - or can this only be done in card emulation mode (i.e. does NFCIP-1 > have to be actively triggered)? > > You mean that you put your PN532 into card emulation mode and use the Android device as a card reader? This is also possible. You could then, for instance, emulate a type 4 NDEF tag or use your custom ISO-DEP based protocol. > > - What's the easiest to use card emulation mode for the sake of data > format simplicity? (get an NDEF file over to the phone as simple and easy > as possible that it will automatically act upon)? > > If you put the PN532 into card emulation mode and emulate a type 4 NDEF tag (see the NFC Forum website for the specification), the phone will recognize it as any other (real) tag. br Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
