Re: common NFC API draft / base for discussion

Luc,

I've been considering re-packaging my NDEF encoding and decoding code from
phonegap-nfc as a nodejs module.  If that would help your implementation, I
can do that sooner, rather than later.

- Don


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Luc Yriarte
<luc.yriarte@linux.intel.com>wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Regarding the implementations, I'll work on a cloudeebus / websocket
> version on top of Neard, that should also work with node.js using node-dbus.
>
> I'd also like to make sure the API can be implemented on Android, and for
> that matter Don Coleman's PhoneGap implementation is probably a very good
> starting point - it also runs on BlackBerry and Windows 8
> https://github.com/don/**phonegap-nfc<https://github.com/don/phonegap-nfc>
>
> I also recall talking with Hans Myrhaug at MWC, he had an Android version
> based on node.js if I understood correctly.
>
> That should leave us with several different platforms for experimentation,
> the more the better IMHO.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luc
>
>
> On 04/15/2013 07:41 PM, Dave Raggett wrote:
>
>> Thanks Luc,
>>
>> I have added a link to the editor's draft from the NFC home page, see:
>>
>>      http://www.w3.org/2012/nfc/#**roadmap<http://www.w3.org/2012/nfc/#roadmap>
>>
>> It is interesting that you've avoided exposing the detailed types of
>> tags in favour of Text, URI, and MIME record types. That seems like a
>> good idea as it steers clear of the variations in how such details are
>> expressed, e.g. in Android. We probably need to take a look at the
>> details of the Android SDK to see whether the draft API can be
>> implemented on top of it.  I will also ask my contacts working on
>> PhoneGap (Apache Cordova) and webinos to see what comments they have.
>> Any other platforms, we should be checking for the details of their NFC
>> platform?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>     Dave
>>
>>
>
>