I am very new to Android development and NFC in general.
I am trying to build an application to read the content of an NFC card where I don't know anything about this card (bus card), I want to see for example how many tickets I have left.
I have scanned the card with variety of NFC applications and know that this card is of type: IsoDep AND NfcB.
Right now I am trying to read its content using IsoDep with no success (errors 6A82, 91AE, 6E00 and so on).
I have an app that waiting for new intent of type ACTION_NDEF_DISCOVERED || ACTION_TECH_DISCOVERED || ACTION_TAG_DISCOVERED opens a new thread (since it is not possible to read and connect on UI's thread) and I am trying to read the content of the card.
I guess my problem is with the bytes I am passing to isoDep.transceive(NATIVE_SELECT_APP_COMMAND).
Should I keep trying on the IsoDep or should I move to try on the NfcB?
Do you guys have any tips?
here is my code sample:
final byte[] SELECT = {
(byte) 0x00, // CLA Class
(byte) 0xA4, // INS Instruction
(byte) 0x04, // P1 Parameter 1
(byte) 0x00, // P2 Parameter 2
(byte) 0x08, // Length
(byte) 0x31, (byte)0x54, (byte)0x49, (byte)0x43, (byte)0x2e,
(byte) 0x49, (byte)0x43, (byte)0x41, // AID 315449432e494341
};
Tag tagFromIntent = m_intent.getParcelableExtra(NfcAdapter.EXTRA_TAG);
IsoDep isoDep = IsoDep.get(tagFromIntent);
try {
isoDep.connect();
byte[] result = isoDep.transceive(SELECT);
String str = bytesToHex(result);
Log.i("test", "SELECT: " + str);
isoDep.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
String error = e.getMessage();
}
my bytes to hex function:
final protected static char[] hexArray = "0123456789ABCDEF".toCharArray();
public static String bytesToHex(byte[] bytes) {
char[] hexChars = new char[bytes.length * 2];
for ( int j = 0; j < bytes.length; j++ ) {
int v = bytes[j] & 0xFF;
hexChars[j * 2] = hexArray[v >>> 4];
hexChars[j * 2 + 1] = hexArray[v & 0x0F];
}
return new String(hexChars);
}
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Edit:
I have just learned that this card is using Calypso authentication scheme.
In this question's answer helped me a little: Read data from NFC tag (IsoDep)
I found a good SELECT function, i have edited my question to hold the new "SELECT" command which is working- In return i get this string: "6F228408315449432E494341A516BF0C13C70800000000029780A55307060A07062004019000" which i have no idea what it means.
Then I use this command to try and read a string:
byte[] GET_STRING = {
(byte) 0x80, // CLA Class
0x04, // INS Instruction
0x00, // P1 Parameter 1
0x00, // P2 Parameter 2
0x10 // LE maximal number of bytes expected in result
};
But i get error: 6E00, any ideas on how to proceed?