Launching the application when a NFC tag is scanned about phonegap-nfc HOT 5 CLOSED

With Android you can launch your application when a NFC tag is scanned. This is done outside the plugin by defining an intent in the AndroidManifest.xml.

https://github.com/chariotsolutions/phonegap-nfc#launching-your-application-when-scanning-a-tag-android

Once your app is opened, you need to process the nfcEvent, read the data and decide what to do.

You can see an example in https://github.com/don/phonegap-nfc-reader. This application launches when a NFC tag with a Mime Media Message of type "text/pg" is scanned.

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Thank you so much for your help! So could an NFC tag simultaneously launch
an application and transfer a bit of contact information to the app and
then open that contact information within the app? I'd like it to do both
but I am not sure it is possible.

Thanks again.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Don Coleman [email protected]:

With Android you can launch your application when a NFC tag is scanned.
This is done outside the plugin by defining an intent in the
AndroidManifest.xml.

https://github.com/chariotsolutions/phonegap-nfc#launching-your-application-when-scanning-a-tag-android

Once your app is opened, you need to process the nfcEvent, read the data
and decide what to do.

You can see an example in https://github.com/don/phonegap-nfc-reader.
This application launches when a NFC tag with a Mime Media Message of type
"text/pg" is scanned.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/57#issuecomment-12952387.

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Yes it can do both.

The intent in the AndroidManifest.xml tells the application which tags should open the application.

Once the application is opened, you will receive the contents of the NFC tag in the event listener that you registered. For example nfc.addMimeTypeListener(onNfc, success, failure)

In your implementation of the listener (onNfc in the example above), it is your application's responsibility to do something with the data. In your case, display the contact information to the user.

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Hi Don, An extended question to this and please help me understand it better. After reading the NFC tag can it open an app+open a particular content within the app.

Ex: News App, When I tap the NFC chip, 1. It opens News app + 2. Open Sports category news.

Thanks in advance.

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As mentioned in the comment just above yours, you can simply grab the data in the tag, and based on it, you can open the category

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