Capacitor

Capacitor Barcode Scanner Plugin

Integrate barKoder’s advanced barcode scanning features into your Capacitor apps effortlessly. Our Capacitor plugin delivers fast, reliable, and accurate scanning for all major barcode symbologies, providing a seamless user experience for hybrid and cross-platform applications.

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barKoder Capacitor Plugin

The barKoder Capacitor plugin allows developers to seamlessly integrate high-performance barcode scanning into Capacitor-based applications. It supports all major barcode symbologies, delivers fast and reliable decoding, and offers an easy-to-use API for capturing and processing barcode data directly within hybrid and cross-platform apps.

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With the barKoder plugin for Capacitor, you can easily integrate advanced barcode scanning functionality into your cross-platform web-based applications, offering a smooth and reliable user experience on both Android and iOS.

Capacitor enables developers to build native mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, while still accessing native device features through a plugin system. The barKoder plugin supports key features such as continuous scanning and high-performance decoding across all major barcode types. Whether you're targeting Android, iOS, or both, the barKoder SDK for Capacitor offers a robust and efficient solution for embedding enterprise-grade barcode scanning into your mobile applications.

How Capacitor works

Capacitor bridges modern web applications with native mobile functionality by wrapping your web code in a native container and exposing device APIs through a simple JavaScript interface. It enables a write-once, deploy-anywhere workflow for building apps that run seamlessly on both Android and iOS, while allowing deep access to native features via plugins like barKoder.

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Capacitor provides a modern native runtime for building cross-platform applications using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It allows developers to run a single web codebase across Android, iOS, and the web, while still accessing native functionality through a powerful plugin system. Capacitor apps run inside a native container, enabling seamless communication between JavaScript and native code.

Capacitor’s plugin architecture, including official and custom plugins like barKoder, empowers developers to build performant apps that take advantage of native features such as camera access, file handling, and barcode scanning. The following diagram illustrates how web and native layers interact in a typical Capacitor application architecture.

Supported platforms

Capacitor apps for Android and iOS can be developed using any modern code editor and built using platform-specific tooling. While Android apps can be built on any operating system, a macOS environment with Xcode is required to build and deploy iOS applications.

  • Android 5.0 (API 21) or higher is required
  • iOS 11 or higher is required
  • macOS is required with Xcode installed to build iOS apps
  • Windows or macOS can be used to build Android apps
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Barcode Scanner by barKoder

The Barcode Scanner by barKoder app will provide you with an easy-to-use tool designed to showcase the versatility and functionality of our Barcode Scanner SDK in capturing all supported barcode formats, including DPM-engraved Data Matrix codes.

Apart from the plethora of useful features, including a variety of options when it comes to exporting the results of each successful barcode scan, you’ll have access to a specially designed DPM scanning template containing all optimum DPM decoding settings.

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