Question

I need to create QR code from contact info which is in MeCard format. I need to encode the following field:

• Name (N:)
• Url (URL:)
• Note (NOTE:)

I can correctly create all 3 fields using ZXing QR Code Generator (here is the generated QR code from the example below). However it doesn’t work with ZXing app on Android Emulator. I’m using this snippet:

Intent i = new Intent("com.google.zxing.client.android.ENCODE");
Bundle data = new Bundle();
data.putString(Contacts.Intents.Insert.NAME, "name1");
data.putString("url", "http://www");
//data.putString(Contacts.Intents.Insert.POSTAL, "http://www");
data.putString(Contacts.Intents.Insert.NOTES, "xyz");
i.putExtra("ENCODE_TYPE", "CONTACT_TYPE");
i.putExtra("ENCODE_DATA", data);
startActivity(i);

The result: ZXing app only encode the name field.

1.) How can I solve this issue? Hopefully without dumping everything in name field.

2.) Are there any alternative library support encoding? ZXing seem to be the most popular.

Answer 1

You’re not doing anything wrong, it’s that the Intent does not support a note or URL.