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https://dimple.io/

A mobile phone NFC device which provides buttons for macros.

It works well enough, but I wouldn't recommend this. It's noisy as fuck, and Android 10 has an ugly "Nfc Service" entry cluttering the shader dropdown.

The packaging has a quick start guide, including the phrase "install the app". An app did not come with the device, and there is no mention of how to get an app on the dimple.io website.

The packaging says to get detailed instructions at dimple.io/howto but that does not exist.

The website has a contact feature, but there has been no response to my contacting after more than a week.

The packaging says to email richard at dimple.io for problems, but I had no response after a week.

I ended up contacting him through PayPal to finally figure out that "NFC" is something my Doogee X20 doesn't even have. The FAQ on what devices it supports was not clear enough to me, because I didn't even know what this technology was.

2020-08-07 on Android 10 ∞

(Android 10)

I got this working on my Umidigi Power 3 on Android 10.

• It took me a while to figure out how to get it working in the first place.

  • dimple.io/howto still does not exist.
• It took me a while to figure out how to enable Nfc. There's no functionality to have an icon enable/disable it just like there is for, say, location services.
• I can't figure out how to mute the loud noise when I press a button.
• Iconify/remove the silent notification for Nfc Service

• One of my buttons doesn't work. It cannot be written-to or formatted by the Dimple app.

  • At best I can have it summon an Nfc app.
    -- .. or bring up a menu to select between a couple, if I have more than one installed.
    -- I was hoping I could leverage this functionality to have it open an application picker so I could set it to something arbitrary, but I couldn't find any functionality for setting a default application for an Nfc trigger specifically. My file picker replacements don't seem to notice Nfc events.