Ok, so I just wanted to give a heads-up if you don’t already know that there is a API for browsers (mainly Chrome on Android) that supports NFC, or actually just NDEF, but it’s a start.
It’s called Web NFC.
I did my final year exam work about Web NFC so I have played around a bit with it, but nothing major.
So I just gonna dump some links for you here:
Web NFC draft (spec):
https://w3c.github.io/web-nfc/
More Web NFC:
MDN Web NFC API:
My demo-application (works on Chrome Android):
https://saiberkeep.io/
(need to refresh the page to use save/load/init in succession)
So I talked about it in my exam about if this API is going to actually become a part of the standard browser API in the future, supported by all major browsers (what about desktop?), or if it’s will sink in a lack of priority, what do you think?
I will post my “paper” here (in Swedish) when I received my grades.
I found it interesting that NDEF actually somehow support JSON data, like demostrated in my demo-app.
So, one of the major show-stoppers to overcome with Web NFC is that you need a “secure context”, that means HTTPS and a SSL-certificate.
I used Let’s Encrypt on a VPS and I’am actually suprised I got it to work.
And yes, I tried my demo-app with my flexDF2 in my arm, it works, but only with NDEF data, in the form of JSON in my app.
My demo-app Github:
