AN4430Applicationnote.PDF

AN4430 Application note Designing an NFC Android Application for M24SR and M24LR devices Introduction This application note explains how to build an Android application to be associated with STMicroelectronics NFC products belonging to M24SR and MLR series. This application note is a guide to implement a customer dedicated android application to exchange data between android devices and ST NFC Dynamic tag or ST NFC transceiver; it’s mostly based on literature accessible from web and more specifically from Android developer web site. Before demonstrating how to implement a simple NFC android application, a short Android Application overview is done by highlighting main Android application concepts. In a second part an introduction to NFC Application reader is done by using the NFC android API. The last section explains how to implement android solution to use enhanced features from ST products. February 2014 DocID025722 Rev 1 1/42 Contents AN4430 Contents Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Reference Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1 Android Application Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.1