@nativescript-community/ui-barcodeview
Scan QR/barcodes with your NativeScript app.
npm i --save @nativescript-community/ui-barcodeview

NativeScript BarcodeView

Supported barcode types

iOS and Android

  • CODE_39
  • CODE_93
  • CODE_128
  • DATA_MATRIX
  • EAN_8
  • EAN_13
  • ITF (also known as ITF14)
  • PDF_417 (on Android only when passed in explicity via formats)
  • QR_CODE
  • UPC_A
  • UPC_E

Android only

  • CODABAR
  • MAXICODE
  • RSS_14

iOS only

  • AZTEC
  • CODE_39_MOD_43
  • INTERLEAVED_2_OF_5

A note about UPC_A and EAN_13

When either (or both) of these are specified, both can be returned. You can check the actual type by inspecting the format property of the result object. For details, see #176.

Installation

  • tns plugin add @nativescript-community/ui-barcodeview

Be sure to run a new build after adding plugins to avoid any issues.


Usage

The nativescript BarcodeView is base on nativescript-barcodescanner from [Eddy Verbruggen] (https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen)

Plain NativeScript

IMPORTANT: Make sure you include xmlns:mdc="@nativescript-community/ui-barcodeview" on the Page element

XML

<Page xmlns:bc="@nativescript-community/ui-barcodeview">
<StackLayout horizontalAlignment="center">
<bc:BarcodeView width="100" height="100" scanResult="onScanResult"/>
</StackLayout>
</Page>

NativeScript + Angular

import { registerElement } from 'nativescript-angular/element-registry';
import { BarcodeView } from '@nativescript-community/ui-barcodeview';
registerElement('BarcodeView', () => BarcodeView);
<BarcodeView width="100" height="100" (scanResult)="onScanResult($event)"></CanvasView>

NativeScript + Vue

import Vue from 'nativescript-vue';
(<any>Vue).registerElement('BarcodeView', () => require('@nativescript-community/ui-barcodeview').BarcodeView);
<BarcodeView  width="100" height="100"  @scanResult="onScanResult"/>

Whatever the UI framework you will receive the event in :

function onScanResult(text:string, barcodeFormat:string) {

}

Properties

  • formats
    coma separated list of format to decode

  • preferFrontCamera
    whether to prefer front camera

  • beepOnScan
    should i beep?

  • reportDuplicates
    should i keep on reporting?

  • pause
    pause camera

  • torchOn
    you guess right?

Methods

  • pauseScanning
  • resumeScanning

Android

ZXing: https://github.com/zxing/zxing/releases ZXing Android Embedded: https://github.com/journeyapps/zxing-android-embedded

With latest ZXing versions android minSdkVersion is bumped to 24. You can still lower it https://github.com/journeyapps/zxing-android-embedded#option-2-desugaring-advanced