BlackBerry® World™ Development

[dhivyamca86]

Hi Friends,

    I want to read the barcode value by taking snapshot in blackberry application. Is there have any direct API to read barcode ? . Or else If there have any third party API's , Let me know Plz.

Regards

Dhivya

[dineshaggarwal]

hi,

u r lucky dear, there are direct api's avilable in blackberry os, and it is very easy to use. Go through sample application provided with blackberry jde 6.0. called barcodedemo.

Regards,

dk

[dineshaggarwal]

barcode api's avilable in os 6.0

[dhivyamca86]

Thanks dk.

But i want to implement this barcode scanning in 4.6. Is it possible?

[dineshaggarwal]

dear, it is not possible using 4.6 os because of there is no api to do this.

[panknaik]

Hi Friend,

for for replying late,and yes it is possible to implement Barcode scanning in 4.2 and above. For that you need to use third party XZing library which is freely availale.

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/ZXING-Barcode-Scanning-API-for-OS-5-0/td-p/7...

you can download the jar file from following link :

http://code.google.com/p/zxing/issues/detail?id=594

Please give a Kudo is this information helps