Declaring Android camera permissions

The Scanbot SDK needs access to the device camera so it can scan from a live camera stream. Therefore, the camera permission android.permission.CAMERA must be defined in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" ...>

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
    <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" />

    <application ...>

Note how we also added the uses-feature tag for better recognition of your app on the Google Play Store (more about this in the Android developer documentation).

Since Android 6.0 (API level 23), you also have to implement a suitable permission requesting and handling at runtime. For more details, please refer to the Android documentation and our basic example implementation.

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