Droidcon India 2014

NFC on Android is not just about payments. There are a plethora of actions achieveable by that small tap of your phone, and surprisingly, NFC hasn’t been applied to as many fields as it should have been.

Outline

My idea is present my expriences while exploring the NFC platform. The applications of NFC reader capabilities present on a phone, as well as the beaming and auto-pairing functionalities.

NFC, being a low powered hardware, means speeds are in the range of 5kbps, but that is enough for small chunks of data. The best part is there is no need of pairing. Just the phones must be tapped onto each other, i.e. their backs touching each other as long as the communication takes place, and everything will be taken care automatically by the apps.

Requirements

If you want to try it out in real time during the presentation, a phone/tablet with Android 4.4 or above with NFC and another phone/tablet with NFC and Android 4.2 or above will be needed.
And a laptop to develop the app on.

Speaker bio

Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Delhi Technological University, while also working at Cube26 as an Android Framework Engineer.
I have been a Developer and Device Maintainer at CyanogenMod and AOKP, making the latest Android source work on Sony Xperia devices, while adding awesome usability features that make users fall in love. A couple of features I have written have also made their way into Google’s Android Open Source Project, and can be found in Kitkat and Android L.
I have been a Open Source community partner with Sony Mobile for the last two years, which basically means I get the latest Xperias to hack around with as soon as they are launched.
At Cube26, I have been part of the team that made many contextually smart UI/UX enhacements for the Micromax Canvas A290, A310, A315 series of phones.
I am also an open source enthusiast with contributions to Linux, GNOME, Arduino, Android and other open source projects.
I was invited as a speaker at Mobile Developer Summit 2014 hosted by Saltmarch Media.

Links

• http://championswimmer.in
• http://github.com/championswimmer
• http://linkedin.com/in/arnavgupta
• http://www.developermarch.com/mds/session.html?insert=ArnavGupta1