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About this app
Metrodroid can read information from some public transport NFC smartcards. It was formerly known as Farebot M.
This is a fork of Eric Butler’s Farebot project, with support for additional cards and bug fixes. A list of supported cards can be found here.
You require a NFC-compatible phone in order to read cards.
You need a NXP NFC chipset in your phone in order to read MIFARE Classic cards. Some phones have NFC chips from other manufacturers, which do not read Mifare Classic cards (eg: Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Samsung Galaxy S4). Check the About screen in the app in order to determine if your phone supports MIFARE Classic.
Some agencies have encrypted cards. You will need to acquire encryption keys in order to read them. These are generally unique to each card. Sorry, I can’t help you with this.
Some other agencies’ cards using Cubic Nextfare on Mifare Classic may also work.
What's new
- 3.0.0 100% Production rollout in Google Play Store (2019-11-25).
- Beta rollout in Google Play Store (2019-11-02).
- Adds support for iOS 13 📱 (on iPhone 7 and later) and an experimental Java SE CLI ☕ (note: This is not yet available on the App Store, due to a licensing issue which is not yet resolved. If you have an iOS Developer Certificate, you should be able to deploy a build to your own device(s).) Adds support for blue HSL cards, Waltti 🇫🇮 Adds support for Cifial cards Adds support for reading serial number of Fribourg TPF card 🇨🇭 Adds translations for Brazillian Portuguese (@MarlonColhado) Fix null trips with SLaccess Fix issue where Amiibo would not be detected on some devices Fix issue where currency values could not be read by a screen reader Fix showing passenger count when no company name is present Fix unsupported plurals that have no explicit numeral Fix zero-date transactions on Troika Fix layouts with right-to-left languages Fixes a couple of crash bugs impacting Android v4.3 and earlier (Jelly Bean) Adds new data for Adelaide Metrocard, Bonobus, Compass, Gautrain, Leap, Lisboa Viva, Rav-Kav, RicaricaMi, ORCA, OùRA and Touch 'n' Go Localize Umarsh region codes Adds support for MIFARE Plus cards (requires encryption keys) Supported cards list now grouped by region Show raw fields for RicaricaMi Adds search function to history Adds support for reading Farebot's JSON format Improves parsing of Bonobus and Lisboa Viva cards
About this version
- Version
- 3.0.0 (3920)
- Size
- 7.56 MB
- Requires Android
- 4.1
- Target SDK
- 16
- Downloads
- 48
- Updated
- Jan 30, 2024
- Package
- au.id.micolous.farebot
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