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This is a Cordova related question, didn't know where else to post it.

I am researching the possibility to use Cordova to build my app. The only hard part is that it needs to communicate with a magnetic card reader (for credit cards or medicare cards..in essence read channel 1-3).

The customer is going to chose a card reader so in worst case if there is no SDK I probably have to build something myself to capture the card swipe.

My question is: can this be done with Cordova, can I build my own plugin that will be able record the audio signal and process that. If this is very hard, I might do decide to go native. However, Cordova would take away building 3 versions (iOs, Android and Windows).

If i can, I will convince the customer to chose a reader that has an SDK, and then I hope I can connect Cordova with the SDK.

It is a bit of a new area for me so hence my exploratory questions.

Mattijs
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  • Is there any card reader that only emulate a hardware keyboard input? in this case you don't need any sdk in all platforms! – Kenneth Li Jun 05 '15 at 18:43
  • no, it is a physical reader, like http://mobile-solutions.ingenico.com/platform/hardware/rp350x-chip-sign-mobile-card-reader/. This one has an SDK and as I do not have any experience with using SDKs and Cordova I wonder if it is complex to read the data into my phone app. – Mattijs Jun 06 '15 at 06:54

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