Such chips are manufactured by multiple vendors, STMelectronics has a lot of them, however in such case your final reader will cost more and you will not have full control over the protocol.Īs for the Android side, seek offers a port of the pcsc-lite driver, didn't try it but from the source code I can tell that they only modified the usb api from the original driver and used a JNI interface to communicate with the c code. Add a CCID chip to your assembly that has already CCID communication implemented.This method is the most cost efficient if you want to sell a lot of readers. This method is scalable and as long as you abide by the specification (a lot of manufacturers don't and this is why the pcsc-lite has the list of supported readers). Implement CCID interface on the controller and wrap it around APDU commands.In this case you will just have to implement reset/power commands and the T=1 communication protocol, however the big downside to this method is that it will work only with your card readers witch is a big limitation. Make your custom drivers (simple communication, some simple commands to reset the card and power it).apk file.Īre there any problems with the above plan that we are not aware? I am concerned that we are missing something fundamental about Android or SmartCard readers in general (for example: security) which will cause problems for us as we start implementing the libraries described above.Īfter doing some more research in this field, there are several solutions available to you: It seems to me that if I provide a library that implements CCID-like interface, the users can then communicate with my reader using the Android USB stack by way of integrating my library to their target. I am not very familiar with the Android architecture to understand why I would have to re-build Android when I can communicate with my peripheral (card reader) via USB. I have read several discussions on the subject, some of which stated that I would have to build a custom Android to do this. The end goal is to have a functioning smartcard reader on the Android platform with PKCS #11 support and provide a library to the end-users of the SmartCard reader so they can communicate with their cards. Our board has a USB connection, through which we can read and write to the MCU via Android.
We developed a prototype board with a microcontroller, which can communicate with a SmartCard (It can read the ATR, issue and read responses to APDU commands, etc).Now I want to use this hardware with an Android phone or tablet.
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