Near Field Communication with Android Cookbook

An easy-to-follow guide, full of hands-on examples of and real-world applications. Each recipe is explained and placed in context.

If you want to learn how to create NFC-enabled Android applications, this is the book for you. Perhaps you already know a bit about Android application developments but have never used NFC, or perhaps you know a little about NFC android development but want some more advanced features and examples. In either case, this book will get you up and running quickly. You are expected to have Android programming knowledge.

Vitor Subtil

Vitor Subtil has been a web developer since 2009 and has been working with ASP.NET, C#, Oracle, and FluentNhibernate in the development of Enterprise Management applications. He started using MVC and SOA quite recently. He is currently pursuing his final year graduate studies in Computer Engineering, where he got introduced to the NFC technology and became a fan thereafter. He is enthusiastic about new technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and Android. He loves using the JQuery framework for JavaScript programming and uses new features of HTML5 such as OfflineStorage, the History API, and Canvas. His current focus is on developing Android applications.