Android Question Inventory Items scanning - need best barcode reader code

[Mark Stuart]

Hi all,
I've read about all the forum posts about scanning or reading barcodes.
Since there are quite a few posts, I'm wondering which code set is the best for my situation.

Currently, the company locations are using my Inventory Scan app (built several years ago in B4A) to read barcodes with a Honeywell model:1900 hand-held scanner attached to the tablet. It is working well as it is. The app is running on a few different manufacturers 7inch tablets, with older Android versions.

But I was thinking to untether the hand-held and have the app use the camera to scan the barcodes. This change would have to be just as fast or faster than the hand-held approach.

Speed and accuracy together for scanning is the essence here.

Can anyone point me to a post that can help me with this?

Regards,
Mark Stuart

 

[Jeffrey Cameron]

Start here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...imple-to-use-barcode-scanning.160725/#content

 

[Mark Stuart]

Yes, I saw that as a top-of-the-list pick.

I haven't downloaded any demo as yet, wanting to get feedback on what ppl think is a better solution.

Hopefully, from folk who have used one of these solutions and know how it works.
It will have to work on older Android versions, as that is the hardware that is being used. I don't think there is budget to upgrade to newer tablets.

 

[TILogistic]

has reviewed or tested this:

[B4X] [B4XPages] Barcode Reader

B4A + B4i barcode reader. Don't miss: - #PlistExtra in B4i. - Manifest code + #AdditionalJar in B4A Depends on BCToast: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-bctoast-cross-platform-custom-toast-message.111046/#content (BCToast will be an internal library in the near future) While the...

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Note:
This reads the camera frames and checks if it's a barcode.

This example uses:
com.google.android.gms.vision.barcode

com.google.android.gms.vision.barcode | Google Play services | Google for Developers

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Although the Mobile Vision API is obsolete and no longer receives maintenance


The solution you can use to detect the barcode of the camera image with this class:

MLKIT Barcode Scanning Class

this is a b4a class for handling mlkit's standard barcode scanning. yes, yes, we have a barcode scanning class, but it's based on google's codescanning api, which is not exactly the same thing. the codescanning api has a camera activity built in, which means that you cannot use it to scan a...

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or Use the zxing image decoder to detect the barcode (only B4a y B4j)


The advantage: you can create an attractive user interface.
I created one similar to Material Design with animations.

Material Design

Build beautiful, usable products faster. Material Design is an adaptable system—backed by open-source code—that helps teams build high quality digital experiences.

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