Phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner: Android Nexus 5x upside down images

[mikejones3]

The new android phones have the camera upside down in them, as a result the scan displays upside down in the nexus 5x.

[mike-eason]

138 is related, otherwise +1, we are having the same problem on a Nexus 5x.

[okonon]

Same issue here

[rudza]

Any progress on this?

[gregavola]

Any update on this?

[infil00p]

This can be fixed by updating the ZX library to the latest. I haven't done any tests on this, but here's the Github issue https://github.com/zxing/zxing/issues/484

[gregavola]

@infil00p I guess it's unclear which JAR we should be using in place of this. They provide pre-build JARs: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/zxing/, but I'm unclear which one is to be used here.

[rudza]

Can anybody fix this? :)

[mikejones3]

Been hoping for awhile :-) I even made some comments on some of the git
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:30 PM, rudza [email protected] wrote:

Can anybody fix this? :)

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[gregavola]

We definitely need help from the PG community...

Greg

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Been hoping for awhile :-) I even made some comments on some of the git
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:30 PM, rudza [email protected] wrote:

Can anybody fix this? :)

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[okonon]

@vladimir-kotikov by any chance is there a way you can update zxing jar for this plugin?

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[EddyVerbruggen]

Hi, I just updated my NativeScript plugin to fix a similar issue - I'll make an effort to update my Cordova plugin fork as well.

I'm aiming at using the same ZXing library for both technologies and fix a few issues as well for Android like locking portrait/landscape mode and providing a switch front/back camera button.

[EddyVerbruggen]

Hi, before even remotely considering sending a PR I'd love some folks to verify the changes I've made to the Telerik fork - I don't have a device on which it was a problem and all still seems well to me.

[EddyVerbruggen]

Just got word of a NativeScript developer using the same updated library: it's fixed for him on his Nexus 5x.

[gregavola]

@EddyVerbruggen This didn't work for me - I tried to remove the plugin and re-add it, and then sync gradle, and it throws errors saying .zxing is not defined.

[EddyVerbruggen]

@gregavola Have you tried it in a new project and/or removed and re-added the Android platform?

[gregavola]

@EddyVerbruggen i cant remove the android platform right now, as it will mess up everything that I have done custom outside the cordova plugman. I think all I really need is the com.google.zxing.client.android.captureactivity.jar that is the latest version. All I need to do is drop that into the library where it was before and we should be good to go.

[EddyVerbruggen]

@gregavola I understand. But I'm not sure what you tried:

• Uninstall this plugin and install the Telerik fork instead, or
• Unzipped the .aar I created, extracted classes.jar and renamed it to ...captureactivity.jar?

[gregavola]

@EddyVerbruggen I unzipped the .aar and then renamed classes.jar to com.google.zxing.client.android.captureactivity.jar - and got this error:

Didn't find class "barcodescanner.xservices.nl.barcodescanner.R$layout" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.XXXX.app-2/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.XXXXX.app-2/lib/arm, /data/app/com.XXXXXX.app-2/base.apk!/lib/armeabi-v7a, /vendor/lib, /system/lib]]

[gregavola]

@EddyVerbruggen I also added the compile files('libs/com.google.zxing.client.android.captureactivity.jar') to my grade file as it wouldn't "compile" unless I did that.

[gregavola]

Ok - I finally got it work - here is what I did:

1) Take the build that @EddyVerbruggen is referencing (the .aar file, https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/BarcodeScanner/blob/master/src/android/barcodescanner-release-2.0.0.aar), and then add it to your /libs directory.
2) In your gradle file, add
flatDir { dirs 'libs' } to the repositories section.
3) In dependencies section - add compile(name:'barcodescanner', ext:'aar')

Appears to work with these steps -but don't have Nexus to test.

[EddyVerbruggen]

@gregavola I just wanted to add that here, awesome that you was able to figure it out! You didn't sneakily looked at the gradle file I added to the plugin ey :)

For others: please spare yourself the headache and try to use plugman for removing / adding the plugins, but you may need to remove / add the android platform as well (which Greg wanted to avoid, understandably).

[EddyVerbruggen]

This issue shouls be fixed when you pull from the master branch of this repo as we've just merged the Telerik fork with this one.

[Sundar-Ram]

Works for me as well on Nexus5X with this Telerik Plugin: http://plugins.telerik.com/cordova/plugin/barcodescanner . Thank you!

[MrScript]

@EddyVerbruggen ,Hi, do you have any idea about this exception?
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lbarcodescanner/xservices/nl/barcodescanner/R$layout;

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