NDEF format

[loicmormont]

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for a website or a pdf file witch can give me the different NDEF type name and format
like this.

Type name format     Type name                         Description
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MIME                 text/x-vCard                      Business cards   
MIME                 text/x-vCalendar                  Calendar notes   
NFC Forum RTD        urn:nfc:wkt:Sp                    Smartposters
NFC Forum RTD        urn:nfc:wkt:U	               URI records      
NFC Forum Ext Type   urn:nfc:ext:nokia.com:bt	       Bluetooth record 
                                                      (for printing/image frame)

But more if it's possible, because my goal is to format a tag with a way to an application existing on
the phone. I want to scan a tag and that the phone open my application.

Thanks
Best regards.

Mormont Loïc

[Pybel]

There are 4 different kinds of Record Types that are supported by Nokia phones (and more generally by NDEF-compliant devices)

• NFC Forum RTD, defined by the NFC Forum. There are four of them: Text (urn:nfc:wkt:T), SmartPoster (urn:nfc:wkt:Sp), URI (urn:nfc:wkt:U) and Control (urn:nfc:wkt:Gc) you can find the specifications on the NFC Forum website.
• External RTD that you can create yourself. For more information about them and how to create one, take a look at the specification on the NFC Forum website.
• Mime: As used on the internet
• URI: An absolute URI. For example, you can use it when you have data formatted as a soap envelope by using the soap envelope definition URI.

The URI you'll use for the Push-Registry has this format:
ndef:<record_type_format>?name=<record_type_string>
where
record_type_format = "rtd" | "external_rtd" | "mime" | "uri"
name = the name of your record type, for example "urn:nfc:wkt:T" if you're using NFC Forum Text RTD, "urn:nfc:mycompany.com:A" if you're using your own external RTD or "image/jpeg" for the jpeg mime type.

In your case, it depends on which kind of data you're writing on your tag. If it's something specific for your application, the best way is to use your own external RTD.

[loicmormont]

Thanks Pibel.

I've found a NFC Forum RTD for a "Content Shortcut" and I think that what I need. The new problem is that I need to give the way to reach my application and I tried different way and that doesn't work.
Even if I try some easy shortcut as open the gallery with "C:/Gallery" I have an error message "Content not found".

[Pybel]

If you want the phone to start your application when reading a tag, you have to use the MIDP2.0 Push-Registry mechanism.
You could maybe use JSR-211 (Content Handler) as well, but I haven't tried this yet so I don't know if it works.

[loicmormont]

I've found a way to do it.
I've formatted the tag to open the application with this

byte [] header = {0x1D};
fieldNameUrl.setString("Collect./Test.jar");
byte [] urlByte = fieldNameUrl.getString().getBytes();
NDEFRecord r = new NDEFRecord(new NDEFRecordType(NDEFRecordType.NFC_FORUM_RTD, "urn:nfc:wkt:U"), null, null);
r.appendPayload(header);
r.appendPayload(urlByte);

Thanks again ^^