NFC reader for iOS

[allengwinn]

I posted something about this in the Android thread but I thought I'd post it here. What are the chances of getting Jacqueline's NFC reader stuff cross-platformed to iOS? I want to develop a classroom attendance app for use by my students. I might even have them develop it. I'd have to work Livecode into my Software Tools for Business course but it could work

[jacque]

Basically you'd need to put in a feature request at quality.livecode.com . No guarantees on the time line though, the team is pretty busy right now.

The other option is to do what I did and hire LC to write it for you. They'll give you an estimate.

[Mikey]

Did Apple finally allow NFC reading on ios? For the longest time you couldn't because Apple said "No".

[jacque]

Did Apple finally allow NFC reading on ios? For the longest time you couldn't because Apple said "No".

They allowed you to read the data partition but not the tag ID. None of the tags in our project had anything written to the data partition, we only used the tag ID. I had a talk with Apple Developer Support, who kicked me up to tier 2 and then 3, all of whom said they couldn't talk about unreleased apps, they could only review submissions. I said I already had an Android app in the store and it would be unreasonable to spend the resources necessary to build an iOS version only to have it rejected. They responded (again) that they couldn't comment on unsubmitted apps but... "technically" we would be in violation, cough cough.

Shortly after that, Apple changed its policy about reading the manufacturer's tag IDs and it's now okay. I like to think I had something to do with that, but I left the project shortly after for unrelated reasons, so I never asked LC to create an iOS NFC version.

[Mikey]

Bummer, because that was a cool project and a cool idea.

[PaulDaMacMan]

This doesn't look like all that much to build a LiveCode Builder wrapper for:
https://developer.apple.com/documentati ... guage=objc
But It's not likely to be me that does it as I have far too many other projects and things going on, but if anyone else would like to take a crack at it I would be willing to help with any LCB + FFI and any problems I may have already encountered (I've been tinkering with LCB since it first appeared).