NFC with mobicartel

Greg carron, lead creative
Matthew patience, technical director

Proximity based architecture
Tags use no energy, typical use visa pay wave

NFC in google maps, maybe new applications with transit, giving real time track data. E.g. Ttc

Nfed push in android 4.0 and android beam that allows you to beam an app & URL to another device by placing them next to each other. 

NFC first released in nexus s, windows8 coming with them, iphone5 should have it. 

Pay wave used for small transaction purchases upto £20, e.g. Car parking

Setup….

Start adding the option to your android manifest file, a manifest file is what defines your android application. 

Tag://agent/price

Also give permission to use NFC and check if NFC is available on hardware. 

3rd parties,
  ISIS, shop pay and save

New apps using NFC for game mechanics, e.g. Foursquare and metatag hunts

google wallet & google offers, allows you to put your visa card in your device

PayPal going for it, touch the phones, widget pops up enter amount and hit ok payment sent.

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Variable to hold checkout price

Onnewintent to handle NFC intent.
Now parse out response object and process call, google have a lot of examples on this.

Getndefmessages, gives array, break that apart to get messages / records and fire your code to handle payment / etc.

Tap NFC tag to fire intent

Adobe air announced NFC native extensions

Open accessory developer kit, released last year at google io, based on arduino to experiment with NFC, IOIO

Example applications:

Access control, bluetooth pairing, transit system, smart posters, hotel checkins, loyalty programs, smart toys

E.g.
 Order your meal right from the table

Codinggreenrobots, developer show

Google “tag agent”, a service which will produce the tags for you, you can buy a device to create the tags but not mainstream