iOS7 barcode scanning plugin - crowdsourcing Gideros API design?

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  October 2013

  Well it all depends if this task should be asynchronous or not.
  
  On one hand I would assume it should be async and you should use callback (but its harder to implement),
  but if you will open and show camera, then the app does not run either way, so you may as well block it and wait till IOS7 returns value (easier way)
  
  If you ask from usability, then probably I would go with async callback
  
  

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• OZApps Guru

  October 2013

  There was a wonderful article that talked about using the url methods to scan a barcode and pass the data back to the app but it works for iOS only (I think). If someone adds the ZXing library that would be good and not dependent on the software version and hardware.

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• ianchia Member

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  Hi @OZApps - not sure what you mean. How would you scan using a custom protocol? Wouldn't you need a separate app to scan and then pass the result along a custom protocol & URL? I can see how that would work but you'd need two apps? (eg. scan inside Gideros and open the Messages app for example if the QR code was a SMS.) Puzzled… (-;
  
  As for ZXing, the Cordova project has a barcode scanner using ZXing for Android and iOS … I was kinda thinking about porting it, but I really only need it for iOS7 myself and it's a piece of cake compared to porting the Cordova plugin.
  
  If you're interested in taking a look:
  iOS: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/iOS/BarcodeScanner
  Android: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/BarcodeScanner
  
  Thank you @ar2rsawseen for your feedback … I'll mull over it a bit. I can see the advantages of async and running the Gideros engine in the background. For example, the iOS7 example code has a QR code music playing demo app (the codes trigger specific notes as a *very simple idea* etc) - you don't necessarily want to block Gideros from running just because there's a camera view. And the camera view doesn't have to obscure the whole screen either - just a portion of it would be fine.
  
  Anyone else want to take a stab with some ideas of what they'd like?
  
  Cheers,
  
  - Ian

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• OZApps Guru

  October 2013

  @ianchia, yes that's how it works, the scan app scans and pases the data back to the calling app via a custom url passed when calling for it to scan. But the way it works is
  
  GiderosApp -> scan://mycallback=myapp
  this will then start the scan app which will take a scan and using the passed URL call -> myapp://data=scanneddata
  
  yes it needs two apps, but the scan app can be used from any application, I think that is quite neat.
  
  I'll have a look at the plug-ins, not very happy with the PhoneGap plug-ins at times.

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• mariahsharp Member

  December 2013

  not knowing whether this barcode scanner for iphone is useful for ios7
  

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• cindy313 Member

  March 2014

  not knowing whether this barcode scanner for iphone is useful for ios7
  

  http://www.keepautomation.com/guide/dotnet_barcode_generator.html
  

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• micagordon Member

  February 2015

  Does it support iso 8.1 now?

  http://www.barcodelib.com/

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