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dankito / DeepThought

A knowledge management application for Android and Java
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Featrue request: QR-scanner #21

Open b3nk4n opened 6 years ago

b3nk4n commented 6 years ago

I can imagine a nice use-case would also be to add a new entry based on a QR-code using the camera.

Proposed framework

ZXing I have used this one in my Action Note Windows 10 app. It was quite easy to use and the library itself was just a port from the Android library. So the Android library should be even better :)

dankito commented 6 years ago

In the old Java base version of the app i already used ZXing to create references from ISBN (that's why the disabled button 'From ISBN' is in the edit reference activity).

But what to you mean by adding new entries by QR code scanning? That one user shares and QR encoded entry and another one scans and imports it that way?

b3nk4n commented 6 years ago

I mean that sometimes you can find a QR code...

So it would be quite handy if I could simple open the app, press (+) and say "New QR". Ar at least somewhere in the "Entry" edit page. Scanning a QR code is usually more convenient than entering a long URL by hand. Or actually, maybe you could combine this with the "Add URL", since most QR-codes simply represent a URL.

Probably not very important, but might a be good enhancement for a future update?

dankito commented 6 years ago

Now i'm getting what you meant (i really almost never use a mobile phone g ). I could really add this option and then let the user decide if she/he wants to add the decoded text as content or get and parse the url.