capacitor-plugin-barcodescanner

Capacitor Plugin to add barcode scanner capabilities to your capacitor app.

Note it only supports the android platform at the moment.

Installation

Install the plugin package by calling

npm install capacitor-plugin-barcodescanner

then call

npx cap update

to update the android platfrom.

Android

Open the android project and the MainActivity.java to register the plugin

  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 
    // Initializes the Bridge
    this.init(savedInstanceState, new ArrayList<Class<? extends Plugin>>() {{
      // Additional plugins you've installed go here
      // Ex: add(TotallyAwesomePlugin.class);
      add(BarcodeScanner.class);
    }});
 
    // some other code
  }

Usage

In your web app, to consume the plugin you have to register for a barcode scanner notifications:

import { Plugins, Capacitor } from '@capacitor/core';
import {
  BarcodeScannerPlugin,
  EVENT_BARCODE_SCANNED,
  IBarcodeScannerEventPayload,
} from 'capacitor-plugin-barcodescanner';
 
// can be used later to remove BarcodeScanner listener
let removeScannerHandler?: (() => void) = undefined;
 
const barcodeScanned = (state: IBarcodeScannerEventPayload): void => {
  console.log("BarcodeScanned - ",state.cancelled, state.barcode, state.error)
}
// Get the BarcodeScanner plugin
    const BarcodeScanner = Plugins.BarcodeScanner as BarcodeScannerPlugin;
// Register listener
    removeScannerHandler = BarcodeScanner.addListener(
      EVENT_BARCODE_SCANNED,
      barcodeScanned
    ).remove;
 
// call to start scanning....
BarcodeScanner.scan();
// this will call the plugin's scan method which starts scanning activity, after finishing the `EVENT_BARCODE_SCANNED` will be issued.
 
 
// when not needed
if(removeScannerHandler) {
  removeScannerHandler();
  removeScannerHandler = undefined;
}