How to read barcodes with the camera on Android?

Question

I want my application to recognize barcodes taken by camera. Is it possible using Android SDK?

Something like this: Barcode Scanner

Answer 1

I had an issue with the parseActivityForResult arguments. I got this to work:

package JMA.BarCodeScanner;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class JMABarcodeScannerActivity extends Activity {

    Button captureButton;
    TextView tvContents;
    TextView tvFormat;
    Activity activity;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        activity = this;
        captureButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.capture);
        captureButton.setOnClickListener(listener);
        tvContents = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvContents);
        tvFormat = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvFormat);
    }

    public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent) 
    {  
        switch (requestCode) 
        {
            case IntentIntegrator.REQUEST_CODE:
            if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) 
            {
                IntentResult intentResult = IntentIntegrator.parseActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, intent);

                if (intentResult != null) 
                {
                   String contents = intentResult.getContents();
                   String format = intentResult.getFormatName();
                   tvContents.setText(contents.toString());
                   tvFormat.setText(format.toString());

                   //this.elemQuery.setText(contents);
                   //this.resume = false;
                   Log.d("SEARCH_EAN", "OK, EAN: " + contents + ", FORMAT: " + format);
                } else {
                    Log.e("SEARCH_EAN", "IntentResult je NULL!");
                }
            } 
            else if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_CANCELED) {
                Log.e("SEARCH_EAN", "CANCEL");
            }
        }
    }

    private View.OnClickListener listener = new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
             IntentIntegrator integrator = new IntentIntegrator(activity);
             integrator.initiateScan();
        }
    };
}

Latyout for Activity: