NFC Android Application Development

182 Pages·2013·13.04 MB·English

by  Izan Díez Sánchez

Telematic Engineering Department
Final Year Project
NFC ANDROID APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT:
UNITENFC
Author: Izan D´ıez Sa´nchez
Tutor: Mario Mun˜oz Organero
Legane´s, October 2013
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“The more I see the less I know”
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge to all the people that took part of my life during
the last five years: friends, family, classmates, erasmus people, workmates, football
teammates... For good, they all have contributed to make me as I am today.
I am particularly grateful for the company provided by Diego, Miguel and
Daniel during all this time in any imaginable situation.
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Finally I would like to thank my parents, Manuel and Mar´ıa de los Angeles,
and my sister, Alba, for being always there and giving me the chance to pursuit
my dreams.
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Abstract
Virtual world is getting richer every day, everything is connected and people
demand smarter devices which allow them to control any situation. New tech-
nologies are being developed, trying to integrate as many functions as possible, to
deliver innovative solutions. One of this brand new technologies is NFC, which
can connect devices instantly without any previous configuration, including pas-
sive devices which can store and deliver information of many kinds.
The work presented here reports an Android application project development
with the Near Field Communication technology. The application developed is
planned to add value to the NFC environment, increasing its discoverability and
consumer awareness by building up a cloud of locations in which NFC interaction
canbecarriedout. Besides, acommunityofuserswillbecreatedinwhichtheywill
be able to share their experiences and interact between them. The application will
feed from the users, being the ones both producing and consuming information.
All the data of the application will be available every-time and every-where with
Internet connection, as any other service does nowadays.
Topics discussed in this document include Android programming, NFC, cloud
services, software libraries, back-end development, integration with social net-
works, working methodology and details on the different development stages and
tasks. A complete understanding of the system is tried to be transmitted as well.
To conclude, an approach to the market will be carried out, publishing the
application on Google Play and analyzing the first impressions.
Keywords: NFC, RFID, API, tag, Android, NFC-Forum, NDEF, Reader-
Writer, PeertoPeer, CardEmulation, NFCPoint, UniteNFC,MVC,REST,cloud,
back-end, Android Beam, integration, SDK.
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Resumen
El mundo virtual crece cada d´ıa, todo est´a conectado y los consumidores de-
mandan cada vez dispositivos ma´s inteligentes que puedan controlar cualquier
situaci´on. Se est´an desarrollando nuevas tecnolog´ıas, tratando de integrar tan-
tas funciones como sea posible para ofrecer soluciones innovadoras. Una de estas
nuevastecnolog´ıasesNFC,quepermiteconectardispositivosinstanta´neamentesin
configuracio´n previa. Incluso dispositivos pasivos que, sin alimentacio´n, puedan
almacenar y transmitir informacio´n.
El trabajo aqu´ı documentado trata del desarrollo de una aplicacio´n Android
conlatecnolog´ıaNearFieldCommunication. Laaplicacio´ndesarrolladatratara´de
an˜adirvaloralentornodeNFC,mejorandosudescubribilidadysureconocimiento,
creando una nube de localizaciones en la que se pueda realizar algu´n tipo de in-
teracci´on con NFC. Adem´as se crear´a una comunidad de usuarios en la que se
compartir´an experiencias y podra´n interactuar entre ellos. La aplicacio´n se ali-
mentara´ de los usuarios, los cuales tanto creara´n como consumira´n la informaci´on.
Todos los datos de la aplicacio´n estara´n disponibles en cualquier lugar y momento
con conexi´on a Internet, como cualquier otro servicio hoy en d´ıa.
Los siguientes temas van a ser analizados: programacio´n en Android, NFC,
servicios en la nube, librer´ıas de software, desarrollo de back-end, integraci´on con
redes sociales y detalles sobre las diferentes etapas del desarrollo y sus tareas. Se
intenrara´ de trasmitir una visio´n completa del sistema al mismo tiempo.
Por u´ltimo, se realizar´a una primera aproximacio´n al mercado, publicando la
aplicaci´on en Google Play y analizando las primeras impresiones.
Palabras clave: NFC, RFID, API, etiqueta, Android, NFC-Forum, NDEF,
Lector-Escritor, PeertoPeer, Emulacio´ndetarjeta, PuntoNFC,UniteNFC,MVC,
REST, nube, back-end, Android Beam, integracio´n, SDK.
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