Technology @lemmy.world MonkderVierte @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

[Solved (gave up)] Any Android Qr app (preferably Open Source) that allows decoding via "open with" or share?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26048405

Because, we have here something called "Swiss Qr Bill" (standardized e-bill with Qr code) and some shops send you the bill via email. Would be nice, if i could just tap the qr-image and open with app.

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Binary Eye can do this https://f-droid.org/packages/de.markusfisch.android.binaryeye/
if you want to scan the the qr code from your phone screen, this app can scan from an image: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.example.barcodescanner/

I believe you will get a code that you can paste as virtual barcode to your bank app?
I love this. It's on F-Droid
It clearly isn't open source, but on Pixel devices, swiping up to the switcher, and then tapping the image is enough to open Lens and get the URL.
They can't even be bothered to add the link to the mail?
- What link? No link needed, the Qr is the bill. You scan it with your banking app, approve, done.
  
  But instead of opening it on the desktop and then scan it with the phone, i hoped i could do it on the move with the phone only.
  
  I can simply share a pdf or picture with my banking app and it reads the QR code and prefills all info. Have you tried this?
  
  I mean if you get it in a mail and then use a qr code reader you should be able to skip the decode step if the qr code contents were included directly as a link. If the code does not contain a link, then using a qr code reader won't help I think, and there will be no way to forward it to the correct banking app.
  
  Look if you can directly share the image with your banking app.
  
  Or see if the qr code scanner in your banking app can open a local image file.
https://github.com/wewewe718/QrAndBarcodeScanner

It's available on F Droid.

I really like this app, like it just works really well and it also allows you to generate barcodes too.
- Thanks, but "image format not supported" with png.
  
  But yeah, looks great. And all their functionality in 4.6 MB, while the SECUSO one can only do Qr and has 6MB.
  
  That's weird. I just tried to make a QR code and save it as an image and it worked just fine for me.
  
  V1.10
  
  what kind of file did you give it?
  
  but also, keep in mind that QR codes don't always contain an URL. I would expect that it contains a code that your bank's app knows how to hande, but not much else.

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