Barcodes come in a range of different sizes and types and even in different formats, since you could consider a QR code a barcode. Both types of graphics are designed to encode data into a graphic that scanners can then use to retrieve and process. Barcodes are used within our day-to-day lives; they are most commonly associated with shopping, with the goods being scanned and the scanning solution being able to immediately recognize what the goods are based on the code. The same applies to QR codes, which are now more commonly associated with web pages so that someone can scan the image and the associated page loads in the browser.
The Barcode scanner control supports the following barcodes:
- UPC A
- UPC E
- EAN 8
- CODE 39
- CODE 128
- ITF
- PDF 417
Some examples can be seen in the following image:
If we want to use this functionality with our app, we need to place a Barcode scanner control onto the page. This control...