Friday, November 9, 2012

That damn NFC alert after tapping a tag on WP8

In these days I had the opportunity to develop a Windows Phone 8 application for my company.
The main reason we choose WP8 was the new Proximity API for reading NFC Tags.

I don't wanna write about how to read or write a NFC Tag but I just want to notify you an issue I encountered while developing.

When you tap a Tag over a device, a system dialog appears asking you if you want to view the content of the tag. A dialog is showed even if there aren't app that can manage a specified tag content.
So read a Tag brings an annoying system dialog.

I had to realize an app that reads tags during an event and does a check-in . So in a single page I want to read several nfc tags without any kind of interruptions.
Can I read a tag without seeing this damn alert that is literally ruining my UX? The answer is yes I can.