Scan the barcode in Google glass using Android Studio

Question

I am using Android Studio as an IDE to develop the Google Glass Application.

Here is the code I am using:

Intent intent = new Intent(context, com.google.zxing.client.android.CaptureActivity.class);

But it gives the error saying cannot resolve symbol 'android'.

I have added the Gradle dependency as below:

compile 'com.google.zxing:core:2.3.0'

Because of this, I cannot run the project. Please let me know what can be done to resolve the issue. Also if any other or better alternative is available, please let me know.

Answer 1

Since you are just including the ZXing core you won't have any of the Android code for ZXing.

Take a look at BarcodeEye: https://github.com/BarcodeEye/BarcodeEye

Answer 2

Adding core won't do anything if you are integrating by Intent . You need android-integration , if anything, to use IntentIntegrator . Starting the Intent as you show won't quite work. Also, you should use a much newer version -- 3.1.0, not 2.3.0. Finally you need to build and install the Glass app, which is in the project at glass/ . I have not tested it with Intent s but someone mentioned it works?

Answer 3

For scanning bar codes I'm using zbar libraries. I have downloaded and added the zbar.jar into the libs folder of my Android Studio Project and then added to the gradle dependencies like:

dependencies {
    ....
    compile files('libs/zbar.jar')
}