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Google goggles API

According to Google, Goggles now supports barcode scanning via intents.
So how would I launch this intent?
Apart from it being mentioned on the app store site there’s no info whatsoever 🙁

Am I missing something trivial here?

Answer 1

There are a number of ways, according to the Goggles manifest.

The app listens for the following intent:

Intent intent = new Intent("com.google.zxing.client.android.SCAN");
startActivity(intent);

This is the code you’re looking for, which is basically the same information provided by ZXing.

As an aside, you can also use a VIEW intent with path http://www.google.com/m/products/scan though this will offer both the browser and Goggles as handlers for the uri. This webpage actually recommends installing zxing’s barcode scanner rather than Google Goggles.