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Archive for October 15th, 2025

The confusing case of two Android “NFC TagInfo” apps

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/15

For a long time, I had an “NFC TagInfo” app on my phone. It worked well, and combined simplicity with straightforward easy use.

To my dismay, when upgrading to a new phone, the icon had been copied over, but the app was unavailable as per the cropped¹ image on the right.

The important message there was “Your device isn’t compatible with this version” which, as I quickly discovered, means “This app has not been updated to be compatible with the Android version you run” (without telling up until which Android version it would run on).

What I however initially missed on the screenshot was the [Wayback/Archive] Michael Roland bit (this is his Stack Overflow profile link where he, as on [Wayback/Archive] User Michael Roland – Stack Exchange, explicitly mentions [Wayback/Archive] NFC TagInfo – Apps on Google Play²).

However, when you search you get another NFC TagInfo app: NFC TagInfo by NXP.

The confusing bit

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skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/15

This is a cool library which I missed when it was introduced while recovering from my extensive cancer treatments:

[Wayback/Archive] skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi based on Google’s Skia graphics library.

The foundation is the cross platform Google 2D Skia Graphics Engine:

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