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Ionic is a popular framework to build cross-platform mobile web apps. In this article, we are going to build an Ionic Angular app based on Cordova to scan the MRZ codes which are often found on passports. The JavaScript version of Dynamsoft Label Recognizer is used to provide the ability...

Quasar is a Vue.js-based framework, which allows web developers to quickly create responsive websites/apps, while Capacitor is a runtime for creating cross-platform iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. In this article, we are going to use the two to create a QR code scanner using...

Previously, we created a Xamarin.Forms Barcode QR code scanner for Android and iOS. Xamarin.Forms is not the end for developing cross-platform mobile apps in C#, because .NET MAUI is on the way. Microsoft mentions that .NET MAUI is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, and it supports both mobile and desktop development....

If you try to port Xamarin mobile projects to .NET MAUI, you will find there is no problem with packages built for Xamarin Android, but packages built for Xamarin iOS are incompatible. To tackle this issue, you need to change target framework to .NET 6 and rebuild related packages. Dynamsoft...

In the previous series of articles, we’ve created a react-native-vision-camera frame processor plugin of Dynamsoft Label Recognizer to recognize text. In this article, we are going to build an MRZ scanner using this plugin to better illustrate how to use it. MRZ stands for machine-readable zone, which is usually at...

In the previous article, we’ve talked about how to build a React Native Vision Camera frame processor plugin for Android to recognize text using Dynamsoft Label Recognizer. In this article, we will finish the iOS part of the plugin. This article is Part 2 in a 3-Part Series. Part 1...

Xamarin.Forms lets .NET developers create cross-platform mobile apps for Android and iOS in C#. This article demonstrates how to scan barcode and QR code from image file and live video stream using Xamarin.Forms Custom Renderers and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms Custom Renderers Our goal is to...

In the previous article, we’ve given a brief demonstration on how to use the capacitor-plugin-dynamsoft-barcode-reader to create a cross-platform QR code scanner using Ionic React. In this article, we are going to use Ionic Vue to create such a QR code scanner. Screenshots of the final results: Home Scanning Home...

The Ionic framework has shifted its native runtime from Cordova to Capacitor. But we can still create Ionic Angular projects based on Cordova. In this article, we are going to create an Ionic Angular QR code scanning app based on Cordova using the cordova-plugin-dynamsoft-barcode-reader and the ionic wrapper. Preview of...

iOS has added support for getUserMedia in WKWebView since iOS 14.3 and WebAssembly since iOS 11. So it is possible to use the JavaScript version of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to scan barcodes and QR codes in WKWebView. In this article, we are going to build a demo app to illustrate...

The Ionic framework has shifted its native runtime from Cordova to Capacitor. But for compatibility concerns and the fact that there are many good Cordova plugins, we can still use Cordova plugins in an Ionic project. We can directly use Cordova plugins with the cordova object, but there is a...

Dynamic Web TWAIN has a new scanDocument API since v17.2, which makes it easy to capture documents using mobile cameras with its document border detection feature. Along with the RemoteScan feature that connects physical document scanners, we can now build a decent mobile document scanner with web technologies. In this...

In the previous article, we’ve given a brief demonstration on how to use the capacitor-plugin-dynamsoft-barcode-reader to create a cross-platform QR code scanner using web technologies with Capacitor. In this article, we are going to take a step further to create an Ionic React QR Code Scanner. A preview of the...

Previously, I wrote a blog post sharing how to implement a Flutter QR code scanner plugin for Android. For cross-platform mobile development, a plugin is not perfect if it does not support both Android and iOS. In this article, I am going to complement the iOS part of the plugin...

SwiftUI is a powerful UI framework for building native apps for any Apple platform. This article guides you through the process of creating an iOS QR code scanner using SwiftUI, Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader on M1 Mac mini. Dev Environment on M1 Mac mini Xcode 13.2.1 Cocoapods...

The MediaDevices.getUserMedia() is the only API used to access cameras from web browsers. Although it is simple, to implement a complete web camera viewer, there are still a lot of work to do. There was no existing JavaScript camera widget available until Dynamsoft released the Camera Enhancer library recently. Now,...

In the previous article, we’ve created a React Native Vision Camera frame processor plugin for Dynamsoft Barcode Reader (DBR). Let’s continue to create the frame processor plugin for iOS. This article is Part 2 in a 3-Part Series. Part 1 - Build a React Native Vision Camera Frame Processor Plugin...

Note: This article talks about how to build a QR code scanner native UI component for React Native. If you need to use Dynamsoft Barcode Reader in a React Native project for production, please use the official Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK. React Native is an open-source UI software framework made...

Capacitor is an open source native runtime created by the Ionic team for building Web Native apps. We can use it to create cross-platform iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.1 As an alternative to Cordova, Capacitor delivers the same cross-platform benefits, but with a more...

Apache Cordova is a tool to create cross-platform apps from standard web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). Its primary purpose is to provide a bridge for native device API access and to bundle for distribution.1 In this article, we are going to use Cordova to build a QR code scanner...

Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer (DCE) provides high-level APIs for developers to quickly create a camera application, such as a barcode scanner and a text scanner. The API surface works across most Android and iOS devices. While it leverages the capabilities of Android’s Camera2 and iOS’s AVCaptureSession, it is much easier to...

The Flutter barcode SDK series is coming to the end. This week, we switch the coding environment to macOS to finish the rest of the plugin platforms - iOS and macOS - using Swift. This article is Part 5 in a 5-Part Series. Part 1 - How to Implement Flutter Barcode Scanner for Android...

In the B4X developing suite, B4J is used to develop desktop apps based on JavaFX or server apps based on Jetty. By default, it cannot be used to create web applications without a server. A third-party library, BANano, makes this possible. It can transpile everything you write in B4J to...

In the previous article, we created a Dynamsoft Barcode Reader library for B4X. Here, we are gonna use the library to create a barcode scanner which reads barcodes from the camera stream. You can download the library and learn about its usage in this forum post. There is an existing...

B4X is a set of rapid development tools which can be used to develop apps for all the major mobile and desktop platforms. It has four products: B4A, B4i, B4J and B4R, which aim at Android, iOS, Java (desktop with JavaFX, server and Raspberry Pi) and Arduino development. Apart from...

I think Flutter is vital for developers. Not only it supports fast building Android and iOS apps from a single codebase, but also it is used for building the upcoming Google Fuchsia apps. Like React Native and Cordova, the Flutter ecosystem consists of amounts of plugins, which empower Flutter apps,...

A few weeks ago, Dynamsoft released an iOS camera SDK that aims to help developers quickly build a document scanning app for iOS platform. In this post, I will share how to configure the SDK in Xcode, as well as how to create a simple document scanner app from scratch....

When developing an Android project with Xamarin, I didn’t get any trouble. However, it is totally a different experience when building an iOS app with Xamarin – it is more complicated. In this article, I will share my experience of binding DynamsoftBarcodeReader.framework using Xamarin. Dynamsoft Xamarin Barcode SDK is Available...

No matter whether you are a mobile developer of Android or iOS, your ultimate goal is definitely to publish your apps on Google Play or App Store. Before submitting apps for review, you need to attach some screenshots used for promotion. Furthermore, you can record screen video in order to...