Sunday, November 4, 2012

Creating Your QR Code Scanner and Generator

THIS LIBRARY HAS BEEN DEPRICATED, PLEASE USE BARCODE FRAGMENT LIBRARY V2

Hey Everyone...
Has been long since i posted any of the open source codes which could help you develop some awesome apps.
Well was working on couple of things.. :D

Anyways recently have been working with QR Code scanning and other stuffs...


WHAT IS QR-CODE?
As per wikipedia
QR Code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) first designed for the automotive industry. More recently, the system has become popular outside the industry due to its fast readability and large storage capacity compared to standard UPC barcodes. The code consists of black modules (square dots) arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be made up of four standardized kinds ("modes") of data (numeric, alphanumeric, byte/binary,Kanji), or through supported extensions, virtually any kind of data.

We do have several libraries available.. (Many are paid and asks for upto $50k/1000 users and some free (zxing).
Now the obvious question is: WHY ANOTHER LIBRARY?





1. The library is based on Zxing
2. It is based on Fragments which means that you can simply add the scanner functionality in any of your existing application without changing even a single line of code.
3. You can invoke the scanner within a part of screen just like a small view, unlike the existing where you need to launch a new activity all together just to make a scan.

WHERE IS THE LIBRARY?
Here is the link : http://code.google.com/p/barcodefragmentlib/ (depricated)
Please use: https://code.google.com/p/barcodefraglibv2/

HOW TO TEST FUNCTIONALITY?
You can download the apk which has been generated from the provided source.

LICENSE?
As always its under Apache License. So feel free to use.


Lemme know if it helped.