ZxingSharp.Mobile

ZxingSharp.Mobile is a C#/.NET library based on the open source Barcode Library: ZXing (Zebra Crossing). It works with MonoTouch, Mono for Android, and Windows Phone. The goal of ZxingSharp.Mobile is to make scanning barcodes as effortless and painless as possible in your own applications.

NOTE: ZxingSharp.Mobile is still quite BETA! Your mileage may vary!

Usage

The simplest example of using ZxingSharp.Mobile looks something like this:

  var scanner = new ZxingSharp.Mobile.ZxingScanner();
  scanner.StartScanning((result) => {   
     if (result != null)
       Console.WriteLine("Scanned Barcode: " + result.Value);
  });

###Features

• MonoTouch
• Mono for Android
• Windows Phone
• Simple API - Scan in as little as 2 lines of code!

###Custom Overlays By default, ZxingSharp.Mobile provides a very simple overlay for your barcode scanning interface. This overlay consists of a horizontal red line centered in the scanning 'window' and semi-transparent borders on the top and bottom of the non-scanning area. You also have the opportunity to customize the top and bottom text that appears in this overlay.

If you want to customize the overlay, you must create your own View for each platform. You can customize your overlay like this:

var scanner = new ZxingSharp.Mobile.ZxingScanner();
scanner.UseCustomOverlay = true;
scanner.CustomOverlay = myCustomOverlayInstance;
scanner.StartScanning((result) => { //Handle Result });

Keep in mind that when using a Custom Overlay, you are responsible for the entire overlay (you cannot mix and match custom elements with the default overlay). The ZxingScanner instance has a CustomOverlay property, however on each platform this property is of a different type:

• MonoTouch => UIView
• Mono for Android => View
• Windows Phone => UIElement

All of the platform samples have examples of custom overlays.

###Barcode Formats By default, all barcode formats are monitored while scanning. You can change which formats to check for by passing a ZxingScanningOptions instance into the StartScanning method:

var options = new ZxingSharp.Mobile.ZxingScanningOptions();
options.BarcodeFormats = ZxingSharp.Mobile.ZxingBarcodeFormat.Ean8 |
                         ZxingSharp.Mobile.ZxingBarcodeFormat.Ean13;

var scanner = new ZxingSharp.Mobile.ZxingScanner();
scanner.StartScanning(options, (result) => { //Handle results });

###Samples Samples for implementing ZxingSharp.Mobile can be found in the /sample/ folder. There is a sample for each platform including examples of how to use custom overlays.

###License Apache ZxingSharp.Mobile Copyright 2012 The Apache Software Foundation This product includes software developed at The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

ZXing

ZXing is released under the Apache 2.0 license. ZXing can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ A copy of the Apache 2.0 license can be found here: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

System.Drawing

The System.Drawing classes included are from the mono source code which is property of Novell. Copyright notice is intact in source code files.