Forward the raw data to a port on the phone

[sandys]

hi,
There is a very good usecase for using the phone's NFC reader on the desktop by connecting it with ADB and running a portforward.

For example, on the phone you could do

echo Just testing' | nc -l -p 1112 #putting it on port 1112

on the desktop,
do a port forward "adb tcp:1111 tcp:1112"
read the data from port 1111 - nc 127.0.0.1 1111

Not only this, you could now get desktop apps to read from the forwarded port and have access to the NFC scan data.

Could you add a feature to push NFC scan raw data to a port on android - you can hardcode this.

thanks!

[nadam]

Cool idea. I might add it in the future if there is someone willing to write a desktop app for the server side. Currently I'm too busy, so it's not something I would add unless I'm sure someone would use it. It's open source though so anyone can add it and send a pull request.

[ashish447]

sandys
u mean that if i scan data from nfc tag then it data pass to our localhost url
something this or another idea?

[giovannidalloglio]

So, basically, you are suggesting to transform a standard phone in a NFC reader, plugged with a workstation via network...

Seems a good idea (why should a merchant buy a NFC reader, having a standard phone? A lot of peole should love it).

BTW, I suggest:

• don't forward the raw data, but let some logic in the phone
  • your end-user desktop application will interact with more friendly APIs
  • more desktop applications will use the phone NFC (due the easyness to use)
• a strong authentication, registration & encryption architecture
  • a MITM attack would be quite troublesome...

[nadam]

Closing this issue since it's not likely to be implemented. There might be other apps out there doing this already.