Android 2.3.3 announced with more developer-friendly access to NFC

The Android versions keep on rolling today with the introduction of a new build in the 2.3 Gingerbread line — 2.3.3 this time — that improves developer access to the platforms newfound NFC capabilities as first seen on the Nexus S . What’s new, exactly? Well, there’s a new NFC read / write API that Google alleges will let you access pretty much any NFC tag on the market today, better control over what happens when a tag comes within range of the device, and “limited support” for peer-to-peer NFC communication — something Stanford cobbled together for the Nexus S not long ago. The new build is available not to developers using the Android SDK; no devices have received an update yet, but we’d imagine the Nexus S is queued up to get it before too long. Android 2.3.3 announced with more developer-friendly access to NFC originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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