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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Chipset Independent NFC API for Android
Hamburg, Germany, May 18th, 2010 – Stollmann today announced the first chip set independent NFC API for Android. The “NFaCe+A” API from Stollmann supports all NFC modes and features and follows the design rules of the Android community. It can be used with different chip sets and NFC protocol stacks, supporting a variety of NFC chips from vendors like STMicroelectronics, NXP, Innovison, Polaric etc.
The API is targeted to developers of standard NFC applications for devices based on the open handset platform Android. Those applications will drive the „app stores“ for Android and will be a major source of revenues for handset manufacturers and mobile operators. The development of NFC applications largely depends on the availability of a standard API to allow developers to write applications independently of the underlaying hardware.
The API will be implemented in a portable Android „Dalvik“ Layer as part of an Integration Package. The Integration Package will be freely available in source code for integration in different Android platforms and for different NFC chips and protocol stacks. The NFCStack+ protocol stack of Stollmann will be one possible choice.
The API specification is available free of charge from Stollmann at E-mail: info@stollmann.de. A complete Software Development Kit supporting the NFaCe+A API based on a standard „Beagle“ platform will be available in Q2/2010.
About Stollmann Entwicklungs- und Vertriebs-GmbH
Stollmann is one of the leader in communications technology for protocol stacks and communications technologies such as Bluetooth, ISDN, and NFC. Stollmann, based in Hamburg, Germany was founded 1994. Stollmann’s team of 45 specialists develops and markets communications software for OEM customers worldwide.
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