Android: Is there a way to implement the barcode scanner into an app? [closed]

Answer 1

If you are more comfortable creating apps using App Inventor, there is a barcode module based off of the ZXing library: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/reference/components/other.html#BarcodeScanner

Answer 2

Android has its own barcode api

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/08/barcode-detection-in-google-play.html?linkId=16316033

https://search-codelabs.appspot.com/codelabs/bar-codes#1

Answer 3

Here is an example of a third-party library for scanning barcodes: https://github.com/zxing/zxing/wiki/Scanning-Via-Intent

Answer 4

As I am not an experienced Android developer, I don't know if you can talk back and forth between applications due to sandboxing. However, there is a barcode scanner called zxing which is "an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java. Our focus is on using the built-in camera on mobile phones to photograph and decode barcodes on the device, without communicating with a server."

Seems pretty solid, so I would recommend using that.