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Mursedul Islam Sumon
Mursedul Islam Sumon

Reputation: 31

is it possible now to read smart cards with html5 or hybrid apps in android phones?

I am a student of Computer Science. I am working on my final year project "Money Transaction with Smart ID Card".

My sir, told me to make an android application with java to read Smart ID cards as NFC. But I am thinking to make this with HTML5. I searched a lot but could not find a proper solution. Some stackoverflow questions answered as this API is not yet made, but those questions are older than a year. Isn't is still possible in 2016. I got a link of W3C but could not understand that if it is still possible.

Please check the link and help me with this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 749

Answers (1)

Alma Alma
Alma Alma

Reputation: 1722

Well if you take a look at this mail in the archive, than it says that:

The Near Field Communications Working Group [1] is now closed.

The group has been working on the NFC API specification between October 2012 and November 2014, and the charter [2] period for the group has expired. During the charter period, the group published the NFC API First Public Working Draft [3] on 14 January 2014.

After the charter expiration, we have been considering how to continue the group's work to bring the NFC API specification to the stage of Recommendation. However, we could not get enough support from browser vendors for the specification and its implementations due to several
issues. The Director has now made a decision to close the Working Group.

We would like to thank the Working Group Chair, Jacques Bourhis (Intel) and all the participants in the group for their efforts.

Source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-nfc/2015Apr/0005.html

So I would say that: no. Don't waste your time on this.

There is a community group for this API. You might want to contact the members of that group for more information. https://www.w3.org/community/web-nfc/

Upvotes: 1

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