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> also looks like android 9+ has integrated scanner I made the decision of not installing play services or emulation layers on my phone, and I can confirm a bu
by muxator 7y ago
> also looks like android 9+ has integrated scanner
I made the decision of not installing play services or emulation layers on my phone, and I can confirm a bunch of low-key apps do not work because of this. That functionality is now considered part of the base system, and only a few applications come with they'd reimplementation of barcode scanning. WhatsApp, for example, has its own, probably for evil reasons :)
AOSP is progressively becoming less useful, and there is no open alternative. Alarming.
- mustardo 7y agoInteresting, at least zxing was open source and kinda embeddable [1] Goggles / Lens certainly aren't :-( I share your alarm, would be nice if barcode scanning (amongst others) were part of AOSP. Alas this would detract from Googles ability to track what you scan [1]https://github.com/journeyapps/zxing-android-embedded https://github.com/journeyapps/zxing-android-embedded
- jraph 7y agoYeah, hopefully Plasma Mobile, UBPorts, PureOS or some other project catches up before the proprietary parts of Android eats AOSP too much. Anyway, I'm looking forward this in any case.