Announcing the Capacitor ML Kit Barcode Scanning Plugin

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isGoogleBarcodeScannerModuleAvailable 717374
ERROR MESSAGE: {“errorMessage”:“Not available on iOS”,“message”:“Not available on iOS”}

I get this error when trying it on iOS, any Idea why ?

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It also seems that it doesn’t work in the example project here GitHub - robingenz/capacitor-mlkit-plugin-demo: ⚡️ Simple Ionic Angular app to demonstrate the use of certain Capacitor ML Kit plugins. with iOS 17.0.1 simulators

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This method is not available on iOS because it’s not needed. The Google Barcode Scanner Module is an Android SDK. You can just call the scan method on iOS.

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For iphone Pro models and some newer Android phones, when attempting to scan very small bar codes, the phones will not focus. Apple describes the issue here starting at 3:33 What’s new in camera capture - WWDC21 - Videos - Apple Developer
So zooming in with the iphone pro is the fix, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to zoom with the capacitor implementation, except that we can possibly set a zoom level before we launch the scanner. Is there another fix for this issue? I can actually recreate the issue using Apple’s built-in QR code scanner that is bundled with the iphone. It won’t scan small qr codes and I can’t zoom with that app either.

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Thanks for sharing. Yes, the zoom functionality is still missing. There is already an issue for that: feat: Zoom functionality · Issue #72 · capawesome-team/capacitor-mlkit · GitHub