Simple tutorials to learn about NFC

If you're working with NFC, you likely have heard the term APDU. APDUs are used by NFC tags of all types, including the wallet passes with NFC on your Android device or Apple device.

Developers frequently need to integrate new technologies into existing systems to offer more compatibility and convenience. Legacy NFC readers were originally built to read static ids off of NFC ca...

If you're a developer working with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, you may be familiar with the Value Added Services (VAS) protocol. In this article, we'll provide an overview of VAS, in...

If you have NFC tags in your possession, you may want to read the data on the tag. One of the easiest ways to do this is using an SDK specifically created for connecting to and reading data from a ...

In this article, we'll go over the different preview customizations (aka top-level items) that are possible for each of the supported pass template types for Google Wallet passes. We'll cover what ...

This guide aims to help developers quickly generate Issuer and Collector parameters in the Google Developer portal for working with NFC enabled Google Wallet passes. Issuer and Collector IDs are ne...

This guide covers how to control electrical equipment like an appliance or battery-powered device with a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi operates at transistor-transistor logic (TTL) voltage levels ...

This guide will cover the process of setting up a VAS reader to detect and verify Apple and Google passes over NFC. VAS readers are made by only a few manufacturers and mostly sold through third pa...