NFC Write (and iOS would be nice)

[SteveP495]

Hi,

First post so pls be gentle etc. I am interested in building an NFC app. I note that Android read only functionality is available.

Are there any plans for write functionality also ? If not, is there a way to access the device API's natively to achieve this ?

Additionally there really should be iOS functionality by now as well.

The use of this technology is getting more and more mainstream..

Steve

[SteveP495]

Any ideas or support for this in the community ?

[jacque]

I had to deal with this. Apple used to forbid writing to an NFC tag and it also forbid even reading the serial number. They now allow reading the number but may still forbid writing to the data partition. I like to think my conversation with Apple developer support changed their mind.

The reason we have NFC reading on Android is because I needed it for a project and we paid LC for a custom extension. Eventually it was incorporated into the commercial version for everyone. We didn't do an iOS app because we couldn't at the time read the ID number. An iOS version was developed later in a different language by someone else.

I suspect the need for NFC is fairly limited and Apple's restrictions may still be too confining, so the effort to implement it probably isn't worth it. But it wouldn't hurt to ask.

[SteveP495]

Thanks Jacque. In lots of use cases NFC will become the new QR code.

Also I search ed but didn't come across tge iOS extension - is it available ?

Steve

[jacque]

No, the iOS extension was never created. At the time Apple didn't allow what we needed to do, so I only asked for an Android version. So that's what we paid for and it's all that was developed.

Someone who knows LCB might be able to do it.

[allengwinn]

I'd like to revive this discussion: NFC reading on iOS would be very useful. I would like to develop an app to check students into classrooms at my university via an NFC sticker on the door. 95% of them have iPhones so kicking off a discussion on what this might take would be timely

[SteveP495]

Hi @allengwinn,

As I mentioned above:

"In lots of use cases NFC will become the new QR code"

Only a matter of time. Sadly had to do my project in another technology as LC only supports read on Android

I potentially have some other projects coming up that need it so would also like to see this (R+W in both platforms).

Does this need a post in the Developer thread up top of the board for a LB developer ??

Steve