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Is it possible to emulate a felica card with an Android device?

According to Android documentation:

Android (4.4 and above) supports emulating cards that are based on the NFC-Forum ISO-DEP specification (based on ISO/IEC 14443-4) and process Application Protocol Data Units (APDUs) as defined in the ISO/IEC 7816-4 specification

On the other hand, Falica cards are compliant with JIS: X6319-4 as per Felica's wiki entry.

So, presumably it is not possible to use an Android device for emulation of Felica cards. Is that accurate?

Solution

  • That is correct. But, there are currently patches from Sony on AOSP under review that would allow card emulation of Felica cards. See for example https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/128491/