Re: [Open-NFC] Hopelessly lost in Open NFC

[Matt W. <mt...@gm...>]

Great thanks Sébastien,  I will give all this a try.


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Sebastien Decugis <sde...@in...>wrote:

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> Here are the answers to your questions :****
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> 1. The best tutorial available is on open-nfc.org website: ****
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> http://open-nfc.org/wp/editions/android/#addon_simulator****
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> Note however that the add-on image of the last release has been built with
> some options that prevent the use of the simulator unfortunately; this
> means you need to re-build the Android emulator image yourself in order to
> use Open NFC with this emulator. BUT, there is a good news at the end of
> this mail .****
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> 2. Yes, perfectly possible.****
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> 3. No specific configuration in the NFC Simulator; you just need to accept
> incoming connections in the Connection Center. However, some configuration
> is required in the AVD image that we provide – hence it is easier to
> re-build this image from source.****
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> 4. Yes, provided that you rebuild the AVD.****
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> Now, for the good news: there is now another pre-build image available on
> the website. It does not uses Android emulator, but it uses VirtualBox,
> which provides better performances – with the tradeoff that less Android
> features are supported at the moment (e.g. no sound, …). You can find the
> announcement for this new image here:****
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> http://open-nfc.org/wp/2013/04/25/new-virtualbox-appliance-embedding-open-nfc-for-android/
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> Best regards,****
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> Sébastien****
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> *From:* Matt Wood [mailto:mt...@gm...]
> *Sent:* mercredi 24 avril 2013 18:46
> *To:* ope...@li...
> *Subject:* [Open-NFC] Hopelessly lost in Open NFC****
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> Hi there,****
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> I am trying to create NFC apps in Android.****
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> I found Open NFC as a way to test when you do not own an NFC mobile phone.
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> I have spent the last 2 days following lots of quite random (mostly out of
> date) tutorials, StackOverflow questions even a couple of youtube videos
> but still can't get it to work.****
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> So my questions are:****
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>    1. Is there a basic tutorial on how to use Open NFC with the latest
>    version?  If not could you point me to the best place to start?****
>    2. Is it going to be possible to run 2 devices using AVD emulators and
>    simulate 1 device beaming the other device?****
>    3. What configuration do I need to do to the NFC Controller Simulator
>    to get it to interact with my AVD?****
>    4. If I was to start today with all the latest versions of Android,
>    OpenNFC etc should I expect it to work?  Should I expect to be able to run
>    and debug AVDs using OpenNFC in Eclipse?****
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> Thanks****
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> Matt****
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