Adafruit Beginning NFC with Arduino, Android, and PhoneGap

Jump into the world of Near Field Communications (NFC), the fast-growing technology that lets devices in close proximity exchange data using radio signals.

This hands-on guide offers lots of examples, sample code, exercises, and step-by-step projects to help you build NFC applications for Android, Arduino microcontrollers, and embedded Linux devices.

Learn how to write apps using the NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) in PhoneGap, Arduino, and node.js, enabling devices to 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.

Dig into NFC’s architecture to understand its relation to RFID, write sample apps for Android with PhoneGap and its NFC plugin, and dive into NDEF by examining existing tag-writer apps to build your own.

Listen for and filter NDEF messages using PhoneGap event listeners and build a full Android app to control lights and music in your home.

Create a hotel registration app with Arduino, from check-in to door lock, write peer-to-peer NFC messages between two Android devices, and explore embedded Linux applications using examples on Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone.