PhoneGap Blog

We’ve added support for another plugin to Adobe® PhoneGap™ Build for iOS and Android – BarcodeScanner. And more are coming!

A single line of JavaScript in your PhoneGap app will launch the scanner, and upon detection of a barcode, control will be passed back to your app, along with the barcode data.

As with the ChildBrowser Plugin, this is an open-source plugin originally from the PhoneGap Plugins repository, tweaked to work on our build servers. Kudos to the authors – check out the Github repository to pay your respects.

For inclusion instructions, check out the docs, and for the full JavaScript API, and a list of the barcode types supported, check out the source readme. And for a basic demo app, look at and build https://github.com/wildabeast/BarcodeDemo.git.

We’re building out our plugin support based on plugin demand and plugin availability, and for this we lean heavily on our community. Want your plugin on Adobe® PhoneGap™ Build? Read this guide.