Vedat Coskun - Professional NFC Application Development for Android

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My beloved love; Istanbul, the magnificent I am so lucky to be born out of you, and my passionate ambition is to be buried into you as well.

Vedat Coskun

To my dear family.

Her zaman yanmda olan aileme.

Kerem Ok

To my lovely family and Ugurcan who encouraged me to do my best.

Busra Ozdenizci

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

VEDAT COSKUN is a computer scientist, academician, and author. He established NFC Lab stanbul ( www.NFCLab.com ), the leading research lab on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology worldwide, which aims to take initiative on sustainable evolution of the technology for creating a win-win ecosystem for all the actors in the game such as users and financial and technical organizations. He is currently working as Associate Professor of Information Technology at ISIK University, Istanbul. He received the Excellence in Teaching award from ISIK University in 2012. He also gave lectures at several other universities such as University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece; Malardalen University in Vasteras, Sweden, and Inholland University in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He specializes in security, mobile technologies, Java technology, Android, and NFC. He has written a vast amount of conference and journal publications, and authored several books, including Near Field Communication (NFC): From Theory to Practice (Wiley, 2012). He believes that establishing a strong relationship between academia and the NFC industry is important, and considers his role as a consultant for national and international companies as a catalyst to making that happen.

KEREM OK is a PhD candidate in the Informatics department at Istanbul University. His research areas are NFC, mobile technologies, web technologies, and mobile usability. He has authored several journal and conference publications on NFC technology. He is also one of the authors of Near Field Communication (NFC): From Theory to Practice . He is currently a researcher at NFC Lab stanbul.

BUSRA OZDENIZCI received her MS degree in Information Technologies from ISIK University, Turkey, and is pursuing her PhD degree in the Informatics department at Istanbul University. Her research areas include NFC, mobile communication technologies, and mobile persuasion. She has authored several conference and journal publications on NFC technology. She is one of the authors of the book titled Near Field Communication (NFC): From Theory to Practice . She is currently a researcher at NFC Lab stanbul.

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITORS

PETR MAZENEC is the cofounder of the Mautilus, s.r.o. company, which is focused on NFC technology and custom software development for smartphones and tablets. He is currently responsible for coordinating NFC activities and technical project leadership for Smart TV development. Petr became interested in computers in the late 80s, when he was one of the few lucky users of the Commodore 64 machine behind the iron curtain. He started programming at that time and since then software development has become his passion. He has progressed from coding on the assembler in MS-DOS up to the current development of software for the most recent smartphone platforms. He started mobile development in 2003 on the Symbian platform, when Nokia released the first smartphone 7650 followed by the famous Siemens SX1. As a Symbian developer, Petr participated in and won several developers competitions and was named a Forum Nokia Champion six times in a row.

HANK CHAVERS is Associate Principle at Constratus, a consultancy providing technical expertise and business analysis for telecommunications, where he is leading the NFC innovation efforts with key clients. Hank has over 20 years of experience in development, deployment, and converging of Internet services and wireless data. He has advised and consulted many companies including CNN, ESPN, and Sabre in expanding their products to mobile; and AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless in launching rich data services. His NFC-specific accomplishments include: producing proof-of-concept demonstrations for NFC-enabling wireless technologies; providing technical management for NFC trials, including the first trial conducted with two types of payment cards loaded on one device; and leading the NFC Forum Developer Workgroup and NFC Global Competition.