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To help developers with creating NFC apps, a new developers section is now available on nfcinteractor.com! It combines links to articles and technical presentations I’ve created on NFC. In addition, you can find information about web services and open source projects. The major new addition is the NFC Comparison for Developers. While NFC is basically… Continue reading NFC for Developers

Starting today, Nfc Interactor 1.1 is available for download in the Windows Phone store! If you have already installed or bought version 1.0, make sure you visit the store to install the update. The main focus of this release is to increase the amount of help and support the application gives. This includes help for… Continue reading Nfc Interactor 1.1: More Help + Support

Record voice messages and store them on Near Field Communication (NFC) tags! Leave a message for your partner, a reminder for yourself, or create a public social experiment. As an optional premium feature, NearSpeak automatically translates your spoken messages to different languages: speak your message in English, and let people who tap the NFC tag… Continue reading NearSpeak – NFC Voice Messages

Four of my NFC presentations are now available on Slideshare for your viewing pleasure – all of them available for download as PDF files: NFC Introduction New to Near Field Communication (NFC)? Get a quick overview of use cases, scenarios and related standards. By walking through a typical day, this presentation explains NFC based on… Continue reading Four NFC Presentations for Developers

At the Build 2012 conference in Redmond, Nokia is not only giving away free Lumia 920 phones to all attendees – developers can also visit the Nokia booth to get a free, rewritable NFC tag. The best news is that every one of the thousands of NFC tags contain a link to Nfc Interactor for… Continue reading Nfc Interactor at the Build Conference

Right after the official announcement of Windows Phone 8, you can now already download Nfc Interactor as one of the world’s first next generation WP8 apps! Utilizing the latest Near Field Communication features that are brand new in Windows Phone 8, Nfc Interactor gives you the best tool to utilize the technology. The tag reader… Continue reading Download Nfc Interactor for Windows Phone 8

The NDEF Library for Proximity APIs (NFC) has just been updated to version 0.9.0! This new release is the first beta version, a significant milestone in the library’s development. In addition to code and API improvements, the new release also adds new record classes. The complete list of changes: Added Telephony records Create Smart URI… Continue reading NDEF Library Enters Beta

Probably the most important topic for any NFC app developer now answered: How to Create Cross-Platform LaunchApp NFC Tags. The new article at the TechNet Wiki analyses the different tag contents in use by various platforms to directly launch applications. It also provides a solution how to create a single NFC tag that launches your… Continue reading How to Create Cross-Platform LaunchApp NFC Tags

Based on the experience of writing NFC apps for Windows, I’ve now published the first articles that explain concepts of how the Proximity APIs work, as well as how to accomplish certain use cases: How to Acquire and Publish Content from / to NFC Tags and Proximity Peers The important basics you need to know… Continue reading NFC Development Articles

Since the NDEF library for Proximity APIs (NFC) has been published less than a month ago, it has already received three major updates. New features include: Now provided as a NuGet package through https://nuget.org/packages/NdefLibrary Portable Class Library for easy integration into own projects. New Social Network tag class to format Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Foursquare etc.… Continue reading NDEF Library Evolves!