cordova-plugin-mifare-ultralight

Cordova Mifare Ultralight plugin

This plugins lets you interact with Mifare Ultralight NFC tags on Android devices. You can use it to

• Detect Mifare Ultralight tag near-by the device.
• Connect/disconnet with Mifare Ultralight tags.
• Unlock Mifare Ultralight tags with PIN.
• Read Mifare Ultralight tags.
• Write Mifare Ultralight tags.
• Check if NFC is enabled on the device.

Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• FAQ
• Kudos

Installation

PhoneGap Build

Include

<plugin name="cordova-plugin-mifare-ultralight" spec="~1.0.0"/>

in the config.xml of your application.

Cordova CLI

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-mifare-ultralight

Usage

Events

There is currently only one event emitted by the plugin and that is for found tags. To listen for the event, use this code:

document.addEventListener('mifareTagDiscovered', (tag) => {
    alert(`Found tag: ${tag}`);
});

The tag passed as parameter contains tag id as an array of bytes as returned by Tag class method getId().

Methods

All methods provided can be found via window.mifare. If you are using TypeScript, you'll need to add this line on top of each file where you intend to access the plugin:

declare const window;

Available methods:

• mifare.enabled
• mifare.connect
• mifare.disconnect
• mifare.isConnected
• mifare.read
• mifare.write
• mifare.unlock

mifare.enabled

mifare.enabled(success, failure)

Checks for availability of NFC on device. If success callback is called, NFC is available and enabled. If failure callback is called instead, there is string parameter available telling whether device does have no NFC at all (NO_NFC) or if it just disabled (NFC_DISABLED).

Example

window.mifare.enabled(() => alert('NFC enabled'), status => alert(status));

mifare.connect

mifare.connect(success, failure)

Connects to tag that was found. This is usually called inside the event handler for mifareTagDiscovered.

Example

document.addEventListener('mifareTagDiscovered', () => {
    window.mifare.connect(() => alert('Connected'), err => alert(`Couldn't connect because: ${err}`));
});

mifare.disconnect

mifare.disconnect(success, failure)

Disconnects from the tag that was connected.

Example

window.mifare.disconnect(() => alert('Disonnected'), err => alert(`Couldn't disconnect because: ${err}`));

mifare.isConnected

mifare.isConnected(success, failure) Checks if there is a connection to a tag.

Example

window.mifare.isConnected(() => alert('Connected to tag'), () => alert('Not connected'));

mifare.read

mifare.read(page, success, failure)

Tries to read the page specified. Parameter page should be a number. If reading succeeds, the success callback will be called with data object as parameter. To access the actual data as string use .data for this object.

Example

window.mifare.read(4, (response) => alert(response.data), err => alert(`Reading failed because ${err}`));

mifare.write

mifare.write(page, data, success, failure)

Tries to write the data to the page specified. Parameter page should be a number. Parameter data should be an array of 4 strings of 2 characters (4 bytes).

Example

window.mifare.write(4, ['AA', 'BB', 'CC', 'DD'], (response) => alert('Write ok'), err => alert(`Writing failed because ${err}`));

mifare.unlock

mifare.unlock(pin, success, failure)

Tries to unlock the tag. Parameter pin should be a number.

Example

window.mifare.unlock(0x1234, (response) => alert('Unlocked successfully'), err => alert(`Couldn't unlock because ${err}`));

FAQ

Q: Why is there no version to iOS or Windows Phone?

A: This plugin was written for my own needs to interact with Mifare Ultralight in Cordova-based application on Android.

iOS couldn't even be supported as Apple only permits its own wallet application to use the NFC.

Windows Phone could be supported if someone wrote the necessary native code. I might be able to help a little with this but won't be implementing this all by myself.

Q: Are there Ionic native bindings for easier usage?

A: Not yet unfortunately. It is something on the todo list for sure, though.

Q: Why is there no event for tag lost?

A: I would be happy to take in a Pull Request for this. It seemed somewhat cumbersome to implement.. Maybe at some point I will find the motivation to add it.

Kudos

This plugin is heavily influenced by the excellent work done on PhoneGap NFC Plugin. Thank you for the effort you have put into it over the years.