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If anyone's wondering, the API is significantly more limited than the Android NFC API (which having used it extensively over the last 2 years I can say is very
by ponco 9y ago
If anyone's wondering, the API is significantly more limited than the Android NFC API (which having used it extensively over the last 2 years I can say is very pleasant).
Still, it's better than nothing and it represents a huge opportunity for NFC tag providers (where I work). We've been waiting for this for about 4 years.
- melias 9y agoI've been waiting for Apple to open up their NFC hardware too. I'm working on a closed loop payment app (https://www.loopz.io https://www.loopz.io) that uses NFC and Apple's lockdown has been frustrating since the first question I get when showing the app is; does it work on iOS? This is the first step in them allowing access to the NFC chip hopefully. The chip in iPhone 6 and 7 supports writing to tags (which I need for my app) but it's not exposed through the API's at the moment. Android has allowed this since Gingerbread.
- Hippocrates1 9y agolooking at the documentation, I'm not able to see if the API allows for even read/write of direct links. Is that the case?
- ponco 9y agoThere is no support for writing direct links as you say, but if the data is a standard NDEF URI then I believe the NFCReaderSession will return the NDEFMessage objects (code example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44415442/nfc-tags-not-detected-corenfc https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44415442/nfc-tags-not-de...)