使用Android设备的NFC通过网络应用读取Mifare卡

Question

I want to find out if this is possible, to have a web app read off information from a Mifare card, by tapping the card against a NFC-enabled Android device.

I have been searching this for quite some time, and it seems like as of now it's only limited to experimental implementation - https://whatwebcando.today/nfc.html

Or am I truly better off with a native Android app?

Edit: Thanks to all who replied. We have been trying out the Web NFC API as specified here https://w3c.github.io/web-nfc/ , turned on the experimental features of Chrome on the Android device, but it always return a null value when we tap the Mifare card on the device. Are we missing out any steps, or is it really a technical limitation of the API at this moment, since it's still not considered as a stable specification?

Answer 1

I think on mid-term even WebNFC will be restricted to (reading & writing) NDEF messages, similar to what Apple is currently doing on iOS. So if you want to read info like UID or raw data out of a MIFARE card, you need to write a native app. Be aware that MIFARE (Classic) is not supported by all phones, even when they have NFC. If you want to use a framework like ionic or Cordova, you can also use the NDEF plugin ( https://github.com/chariotsolutions/phonegap-nfc )