Re: Implementation status update

Great. Thanks Kenneth for the detailed reply. I'll give Android Chrome a go.

Just one question on the implementation that's not clear from the spec: Is it possible to differentiate from the value
of navigator.nfc whether Web NFC is either not implemented, not active because there are no NFC devices, or not
available because it's in use? It would be good to tell these apart so that the user can be given a helpful message to
get it working.

Mark

On 11/08/16 18:33, Christiansen, Kenneth R wrote:
> We are in the progress of finishing upstreaming the remaining parts of our WebNFC implementation to Chrome on Android.
>
> It has been a long journey because of some major refactoring of Chrome (Project Onion Soup) going on in parallel, but now we are almost there.  A few patches are still pending as reviewers are still on vacation, but they should be landed within the next month I would say.
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> In order to test Web NFC, you need to enable Experimental Web Platform Features in the about:flags on Chrome for Android. The Dev Channel should give you the most complete implementation.
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> We had an experimental implementation for Linux, using 'neard' - but we refocused to Android as neard has several bugs and missing features that are required.
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> Kenneth
>

Received on Thursday, 11 August 2016 11:33:36 UTC