Zxing.net.mobile: Is this project still being maintained? What are your alternatives?

Created on 13 May 2019 · 8Comments · Source: Redth/ZXing.Net.Mobile

I've noticed a lot of the commits are from several years ago and the CI build is failing. We're looking for a bar-code scanning solution and I'm afraid to jump into a library that is growing stale. Can anyone recommend a good alternative library? Is it still worth using this one?

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Sorry, it's been tough finding time for the project. I've finally done some work here and there's a 3.x prerelease out.

Redth on 13 Mar 2020

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You can either create your own custom renderers for each platform or find some packages out there for that does the same thing for Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS respectively. A bit of work, but it's an alternative.

titonton on 17 May 2019

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paid sdk like Scandit

trilm208 on 7 Jun 2019

I think an update is planned?
https://github.com/Redth/ZXing.Net.Mobile/issues/780

perhaps @Redth is waiting on the dependency project maintainer @micjahn to perform their major refresh first?

https://github.com/micjahn/ZXing.Net/issues/172

RhomGit on 29 Jun 2019

check my notes from #780 , Also vote on this being a native feature of Xamarin: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/projects/5#card-27656349

lazmeister on 1 Nov 2019

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Sorry, it's been tough finding time for the project. I've finally done some work here and there's a 3.x prerelease out.

Redth on 13 Mar 2020

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Very excited about this. Thanks @Redth , best news I've had all week!

RhomGit on 13 Mar 2020

@Redth Your efforts are always greatly appreciated! Get some rest and thank you!

lazmeister on 13 Mar 2020

@Redth thanks a lot for investing your spare time in projects like this. Many people seem to forget that so much effort is put into open source projects without ever directly gaining a single dollar with it.

How do you think will ZXing.Net.Mobile library advance in the future? Do you have any roadmap which you can share with us? And furthermore: Do you think it would be an idea to scale the project up to get more work done here? I see there are many open issues and pull requests waiting for review/correction/merging, but it all comes down to you. I can totally understand that this costs a lot of time and effort but I think this library could have much more success if there was more progress. Do you agree (at least partly)? :)