Beginning NFC: Near Field Communication with Arduino, Android, and PhoneGap

by Tom Igoe, Don Coleman, Brian Jepson

Jump into the world of Near Field Communications (NFC), the fast-growing technology that lets devices in close proximity exchange data, using radio signals. With lots of examples, sample code, exercises, and step-by-step projects, this hands-on guide shows you how to build NFC applications for Android, the Arduino microcontroller, and embedded Linux devices. You’ll learn how to write apps using the NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) in PhoneGap, Arduino, and node.js that help devices read messages from passive NFC tags and exchange data with other NFC-enabled devices. If you know HTML and JavaScript, you’re ready to start with NFC.

243 pages, Paperback

First published September 22, 2013

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice starter book

Good introduction. Solid examples of introductory applications. Not very technical, and good starter kit for people learning how to code.