NFC is a powerful communications technology who enable new device to device interaction scenarios

1. NFC:
Nuevos escenarios de interacción en Windows Phone 8
Josué Yeray Julián Ferreiro
Lead Developer @ Icinetic
Nokia Developer Champion / Certified Trainer
Microsoft MVP Windows Phone
josueyeray@gmail.com
@JosueYeray
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2. What is
?
“NFC, stands for Near Field Communication. Wireless RFID technology, short range of
action for secure connections”
Standard controlled by the NFC-Forum
ISO/IEC 18092 & 14443
Proximity connection: up to 4 cm
Slow velocity: 106/212/424 Kbit/s
Small capacity: Standard: 64Kb

3. What is
?
“NFC, short for Near Field Communication. Wireless RFID technology, short range of
action for secure connections”
Pairing time: < 0.1 seconds (bluetooth: < 6.0 seconds)
Secure! You need to stay close to pairing
Great way to share small content like URLs, Address,
Contacts….
Much lower power consumption than bluetooth

4. Testing NFC Apps
How can you test NFC enabled apps?
You need two NFC complaint phones
Or… you can emulate them!

5. Testing NFC Apps
Proximity tapper & Windows Phone 8 emulators
proximitytapper.codeplex.com

6. NFC in Windows Phone 8
PeerFinder class
Namespace Windows.Networking.Proximity
Allow our app to broadcast it self
The app is opened or downloaded in the other device
A great way to share our app P2P

7. NFC in Windows Phone 8
PeerFinder class
We can use PeerFinder to pair two devices
Later, the devices bluetooth is activated
We can share large amounts of info using bluetooth
This way we can overcome the NFC size limits

8. NFC in Windows Phone 8
ProximityDevice class
Namespace Windows.Networking.Proximity
PublishMessage
PublishUriMessage
PublishBinaryMessage

9. NFC in Windows Phone 8
Type of interactions with NFC
Share a contact card
Share an URL
Share an address
Share, share, share, share….!

10. DEMO TIME!
PeerFinder & ProximityDevice
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11. NFC in Windows Phone 8
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