Implementing QR Code Reader to Flash AIR Android App?

[FC1991]

Hi everyone!
I am developing an Android application using AIR on Adobe Flash CS5.

I am still a beginner to actionscript 3.0 as I am more used to actionscript 2.0

I am currently looking for a way to implement a QR code reader to my app which works in conjunction with the hardware camera of the android device.

I am not entirely sure if AIR is capable of doing this, but I have found the following website by luck:
http://www.remotesynthesis.com/post.cfm/adding-a-qr-code-reader-in-flex-on-android

The writer seem to have accomplished a QR decoder application via Flex.

I am not too sure what Flex really is neither, all that I know is that Flex is a development kit for making mobile/desktop appilcation.

But there seems to be some sort of relation between AIR and Flex and there is even a selectable FlexComponentBase component in Flash CS5.

Now, is it possible to use the ZXing Library in my AIR project? If so how can I go about acheving this?

Thank you very much in advance!

[Ashutosh Sharma]

This site might be of help: http://blog.jactionscripters.com/2009/05/23/introduction-of-qr-code-reader-library/. It has a .swc library that implements reading of QR codes, the source being a Video or any Sprite. You could attach the device's camera to a Video object.

[sbhave]

Loosely compared with Java --

Adobe AIR or Flash in Browser is like JVM that can execute some code.

Actionscript X.X is like the Java language itself

Flex is a component framework like AWT or SWING which can give you readymade UI components that you can re-use.

Flash CS or Flex Builder can be compared to intelliJ or Eclipse [i.e. IDEs for developing applications]

Having said that, if you are still looking for android QR reader solution:

I have written ANE version for ZBar that works on Android and iOS over same ActionScript API. It works similar to CameraUI i.e. I open Native Activity/ViewController that scans and sends the data to AIR app as an async event.

I have developed this for one of my projects. If anyone is interested revert back on this thread.

ANE can be compared to JNI in Java world

Regards,

sbhave

[SamiKaraeen]

can u send them to me

[sbhave]

https://code.google.com/p/adobe-air-qr-barcode-zbar-ane/

[FC1991]

This is fantastic. Thanks!