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LaunchApp Tag Maker allows you to create tags that can launch any apps available in store or installed on the phone. This project is a sample app supporting the wiki article How to launch apps available in the store using NFC LaunchApp tag.
The app demonstrates how to use LaunchApp protocol with NFC tag for Windows Phone 8, which is explained in details in the wiki article How to launch apps available in the store using NFC LaunchApp tag.
If you want to create a LaunchApp for a specific app, then you need to obtain the application ID. There are two ways to get this ID:
- Visit http://www.windowsphone.com/store
- Navigate to the app list view, long press an app, click "share", choose any email account and copy the string after "
?appid=" from the URL.
If you do not have any applications in mind, but just want to try this example app, a list of apps is provided for you to create tags for demo purposes.
The "Introduction" page explains in brief what the LaunchApp Tag Maker is and how to use it. You can tap "Start" to navigate to the "Create Tags" page and start creating tags.
The "Create Tags" page allows you to write a LaunchApp tag. By default, the Nokia Music app ID is used for tag creation. You can tap "write to tag" and then approach a writable NFC tag to write the LaunchApp tag. You can edit the app ID in the textbox in the top of the page. Or you can tap "tag for " to fill the app ID for , then click "write to tag" to create a tag. Please remember that textbox supports copy/paste. If you have copied the app ID from browser or email, you can easily paste it into textbox.
If the tag you target does not have enough space for the payload, a note with a warning will be shown. You need to find another tag suitable for your payload size.
If the tag is successfully written down, the the message below will be given
