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Chapter 2. Developing NFC
Applications with Android ........................ 45
2.1. Introduction to Android programming
using Eclipse ................................. 46
2.1.1. Android in a nutshell ....................... 46
2.1.2. Android in Eclipse IDE ..................... 49
2.1.3. Intents and Android context ................... 60
2.1.4. The Activity class of Android .................. 61
2.1.5. Android graphical interface: “layout” files .......... 64
2.1.6. Compiling and testing an Android application ........ 67
2.2. Implementing NFC with Android .................. 70
2.2.1. Android manifest declarations ................. 71
2.2.2. Implementing the NFC reader/writer mode .......... 71
2.2.3. Implementing the NFC P2P mode with Android ...... 83
2.2.4. Implementing the NFC card emulation
mode with Android ............................ 87
2.2.5. Developing NFC services with Android HCE ........ 97
Chapter 3. NFC Use Cases ........................ 107
3.1. Usage of the NFC reader/writer mode ............... 107
3.1.1. Use case: management of equipment loans .......... 108
3.2. Usage of the NFC P2P mode ..................... 112
3.2.1. Use case: NFC pairing ...................... 112
3.3. Usage of NFC card emulation mode ................ 114
3.3.1. Use case: digital wallet in the SE ................ 115
3.4. Usage of the HCE mode ....................... 118
3.4.1. Use case: SE in the Cloud with HCE ............. 119
Conclusion ................................... 121
Bibliography .................................. 125
Index ....................................... 129
