How to use intents from Barcode Scanner?

JUSTINB · by **JUSTINB** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:55 am

Hey everyone! I've been lurking around reading all the wonderful stuff you guys have posted. Thanks!

One thing I don't quite understand, is how to use intents from another app, specifically the Barcode Scanner.

In case it may help to explain what I want to do-- I want to create an application that uses Barcode Scanner's scanning intent, search a database (such as upcdatabase.com) to obtain the item name. After it's done that, the user will enter in the size of the product, and the POS price along with some other info to then save it to a database. The app will do other stuff, but that's the basics. I know it sounds odd, but it's not going to be a public use application (although it certainly could modified to be).

Thanks! I searched around for this information but didn't find exactly what I was looking for.

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:31 am

The action string for the intent for starting the BarCode scanner is "com.google.zxing.client.android.SCAN". So you should make a new intent and start a new activity with this intent:

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Intent i = new Intent(this, "com.google.zxing.client.android.SCAN");
 
i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
 
startActivityForResult(i);
 
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Also you have to set the catagory to "android.intent.category.DEFAULT". But I suppose DEFAULT will be the, well, default catagory.
I'm writing this out of my head so it could be off, but then you have a little direction

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JUSTINB · by **JUSTINB** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:34 am

Thanks! This should help out a lot.

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:39 am

I updated my code, it should be working now, as far as it's possible to work from my head.

How to use intents from Barcode Scanner?

How to use intents from Barcode Scanner?

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