Storage Card API (external)

As part of the Card Layer, the Storage Card API provides high-level functionality for selecting and performing transactions with storage cards (NXP Mifare Ultralight, ST Microelectronics ST25 / SRT512, etc.).

Interfaces

The Storage Card API provides the means to select a target card and then perform a transaction with the selected card.

• The result of a card selection is a storage card image whose UID and data blocks can be browsed.

The StorageCard interface provide accessors to recover the information of the selected storage card.

To optimize the number of exchanges with a card reader, the Storage Card API allows grouping the commands. A set of commands could be first prepared, and then be processed by a selected target at the selection or during the transaction. A transaction with a storage card is fully managed through the StorageCardTransactionManager interface: