How to programmatically access PC/SC compliant smartcard reader from Android App? The smartcard reader is physically connected to Android device through the USB port. Thanks!

We are looking at implementing a hardware security token with Secure Element (SE) with JavaCard smartcard connected to Android Phone over USB cable. In this design Android phone will be acting in a "USB host" mode. Looking for a list of SE chips or smartcard manufacturers who provide Secure Element chip in a USB form factor. Thank you!

Is there a list of a well known smart cart AID's (Applet ID's)? APDU ISO/IEC 7816-4 Application Identifiers?

Looking for a smardSD card vendor in the microSD form factor. The card needs to be running JavaCard and we should be able to place our custom applets on the card

We want to try several experiments with JCOP JavaCard programming. What is the cheapest JavaCard / Development Kit option? I do not mind paying for the card reader and cards. What I try to avoid is paying for the (potentially expensive) vendor SDK for that card. So we need some JCOP card that could be used with free SDK from Oracle / GlobalPlatform. Please advice!

What is the most popular Smart Card OS / development stack? We are looking into selecting a Smart Card platform for our custom application security project development. Just to be clear, we are looking into more advanced cards, i.e. Dynamic Application Card OS'es, and not Fixed File Structure Cards. It looks like 2 of the most popular Dynamic Application Card OS'es are: JavaCard MULTOS Which one of these is more popular? Has better develo