How to Register an Activity that Responds to NFC tags for URI's that point to a URL

This will register an Activity that will respond only to NFC tags that correspond to a URI that points a website (URL).
ACTION_NDEF_DISCOVERED(added in API level 10) is an Intent to start an activity when a tag with NDEF payload is discovered.

1. Add a new activity to your AndroidManifest.xml file. You may add it below  a closing (</activity) tag.

<activity android:name=".BlogViewer">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.nfc.action.NDEF_DISCOVERED"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<data android:scheme="http:"
   android:host="androidsbs.blogspot.com"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>

2. Compile and run!

Resources:Professional Android 4 Application Development by Reto Meier, pg 694
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/nfc/NfcAdapter.html#ACTION_NDEF_DISCOVERED

How to Set Permission for I/O Operations over NFC

public static final String NFC was added in API level 9
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC

1. In the AndroidManifest.xml file, and add the following line Add the line between the <uses-sdk../> and the <application> tags.

<uses-permission android:name = "android.permission.NFC" />

2. Compile and run!

Resources:
Professional Android 4 Application Development by Reto Meier, pg 693
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#NFC