Market-leading NFC vendors STMicroelectronics and NXP have announced, in conjunction with Trusted Logic and Stollmann, that the companies are to promote a common hardware-independent Application Programming Interface (API) for Near Field Communication (NFC) applications on mobile phones and other devices running Android.

The companies will release an update of their recently published Android APIs to the community as a proposal for a mutual standard. The common NFC API is seen as a central resource enabling developers to create NFC applications to be distributed through app stores. This will enable mobile phone users to access a new range of contactless applications capable of conveniences such as mobile payments, transport and event ticketing as well as data sharing directly from their Android phone.

The API specification will be accessible via a single email request to NFCforAndroid@trusted-logic.com and nfc@stollmann.de. An Apache License 2.0 model was selected in order to provide a legal framework to new contributions.

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• Press announcement: NXP, STMicroelectronics, Trusted Logic and Stollmann to Promote Hardware-Independent NFC API for Android

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