Reading NFC Tags with iPhone 6 / iOS 8

The iPhone6/6s/6+ are NOT designed to read passive NFC tags (aka Discovery Mode). There’s a lot of misinformation on this topic, so I thought to provide some tangible info for developers to consider. The lack of NFC tag read support is not because of software but because of hardware. To understand why, you need to … Read more

Can an Android NFC phone act as an NFC tag?

At this time, I would answer “no” or “with difficulty”, but that could change over time as the android NFC API evolves. There are three modes of NFC interaction: Reader-Writer: The phone reads tags and writes to them. It’s not emulating a card instead an NFC reader/writer device. Hence, you can’t emulate a tag in … Read more