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Why NFC Tags?
NFC Tags are used extensively in agri-tech, warehouse, and logistics operations to track real-life objects.
With COVID-19, contactless technology has acquired importance in commercial and consumer applications. We see a need to scan NFC tags with mobile applications beyond the above well-known industrial applications.
Cordova
Cordova is a cross-platform mobile framework for apps in Android and iOS. Building a Cordova mobile app is easy for web developers as it uses the standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript technologies. One use either plain JavaScript or one of the more expressive Single Page Application (SPA) frameworks, such as React, Vue, or Angular.
While Cordova may seem like a browser packaged in a mobile app, it is quite powerful in contactless technology in general and NFC in particular.
Cordova and NFC
The PhoneGap NFC Plugin provides a simple way to read and write NFC tags using the NDEF format for data.
In passing, we should mention that PhoneGap is a now-defunct version of Cordova, provided at some point by Adobe.
