If you are waiting for an NFC implementation for Android you might like to take a look at Open NFC. It’s an open source edition licensed under the Apache License that will allow NFC to be integrated into Android phones. The source code will be available from May 15 2010. Open NFC includes…
- Low-level RF control
- NFC Forum-specified tag handling
- Peer-to-peer communications
- Bluetooth and Wi-Fi pairing
- Interactions with single-wire protocol SIMs and other secure elements
- Compatibility with smart cards and RFID tags based on Felica, Mifare, and ISO 14443 standards
At one time people thought NFC was the future of payments but increasingly, due to non-adoption by phone OEMs, there hasn’t been much uptake. Phone OEMs have been waiting for network operators to order the phones. Network operators won’t order because they have been waiting for a non-fragmented ecosystem to evolve.
Today, NFC is more viable for security, stock control and ticketing applications.
