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Getting started with the Android Barcode Scanner SDK's RTU UI

Adding the RTU UI dependency​

The RTU UI components are distributed as a separate package rtu-ui-v2-barcode. Add it as a dependency to your project:

implementation("io.scanbot:rtu-ui-v2-barcode:$scanbotBarcodeSdkVersion")

Get the latest $scanbotBarcodeSdkVersion from the changelog.

Launching the RTU UI Barcode Scanner​

With just a few lines of code, you can integrate barcode scanning into your application's workflow. It is as easy as starting an Android activity.

Start RTU UI Barcode snippet
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We offer some syntactic sugar for handling the result from RTU UI Components via the AndroidX Result API:

  • Every RTU UI component's activity contains a Result class, which (along with the resultCode value) exposes a boolean resultOk property. This will be true if resultCode equals Activity.RESULT_OK.

  • When you only expect Activity.RESULT_OK result code, you can use the AppCompatActivity.registerForActivityResultOk extension method instead of registerForActivityResult. It will be triggered only when there is a non-nullable result entity present.

caution

Always use the corresponding activity's static newIntent method to create an intent when starting the RTU UI activity using the deprecated startActivityForResult approach. Creating an android.content.Intent object using its constructor (passing the activity's class as a parameter) will lead to the RTU UI Component malfunctioning.

Handling scan results​

The BarcodeScannerUiResult class provides scanned items containing rich barcode data and extracted documents. Use its properties to retrieve text, format, and structured data.

You can find all available properties of the BarcodeScannerUiResult in the API documentation.

Handling the Result
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