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Near Field Communication with Android Cookbook

By : Vitor Subtil
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Near Field Communication with Android Cookbook

By: Vitor Subtil

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Near Field Communication with Android Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Turning other adapters on/off


In this recipe, we will create a basic application that writes enable/disable actions to a tag and enables/disables the chosen adapter when the tag is detected.

Getting ready

In order to create a basic application that will turn the adapters on/off, make sure that you take care of the following elements:

  • Make sure you have a working Android development environment. If you don't, ADT Bundle is a good start. It is available at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.

  • Also, you should have an NFC-enabled Android device or a virtual test environment. Refer to the Testing your app all together recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with NFC.

  • We assume that Eclipse is your development IDE and that you are familiar with writing external-type NdefRecords. Refer to the Working with external types recipe in Chapter 3, Writing Tag Content.

How to do it...

We will write an Integer value to a tag. This value represents an action to enable/disable Wi-Fi, network, GPS, and Bluetooth...