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Android Beam (NFC) support in Fennec
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Posted by: stak
Tags: mozilla
Posted on: 2013-03-13 19:16:54
Last week I landed bug 726335 which adds support for sharing the currently visible tab URL via Android Beam in Fennec. I also had two follow-up patches because I forgot to check the API levels in which the relevant APIs where added... doh! But anyway, if you have two Android NFC-enabled devices running ICS or higher, and Nightly (FF 22) running on one or both of them, you can hold the devices back-to-back until the Android Beam UI shows up, and then tap the screen to share the current tab's URL.
We should be Beam-compatible with the stock browser, so if the device you're sending the URL to doesn't have Fennec installed they can still open the URL in the stock browser, and you should be able to receive URLs sent from the stock browser in Fennec. Note also that if you are currently on a private browsing tab, this feature is disabled.
While sharing the current tab's URL is an obvious starting point, there are probably other things that could be shared over NFC. What else would you like to be able to share from Fennec?
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