Google Develops Automatic QR Code Scanner For Android Phones

Google is developing a new code scanner (photoL dock. pexels)

JAKARTA - In the near future, you may no longer have trouble reading the QR code that is far away from your Android phone. Google is developing a new code scanner that automatically detects QR codes in the camera frame, enlarges the display, and reads them. This feature is not yet fully present on the device, but is already in the latest API that Google provides to developers.

In particular, the Google code scanner API has been updated with this new capability. It works in Google's QR Code Scanner system application, but can also be implemented in other applications.

If developers implement a API code scanner, users don't need to give these additional camera permissions this saves developers time because they don't need to build special experiences.

This API uses Google's on-device machine learning to decode QR codes, and generates only Barcode objects to apps to maintain user privacy. It's unclear what's really going on behind the scenes, but AI upgrades are common for other types of media.

As Android expert Mushaal Rahman noted, this automatic scanner feature is available in the latest version of the API Scanning library kit of the ML Kit Bundle 17.2.0 Batang Code which can be entered into applications and versions regardless of 18.3.0, which can be downloaded by Google Play Services. This is also included in the 16.1.0 version of the API code scanner only.

Rahman wrote that it is likely that this easy QR code scanning feature will be present on devices running Android 13 or a newer version, because their QR code scanner uses the same ML Kit Block Code Scan library where this feature is added. And this may have started rolling out via GMS, Google's share of Android licensed to a specific manufacturer, according to a screen recording of user X (formerly Twitter) AssembleDebug.

It's not clear how effectively this new feature will work on Android smartphones with unfavorable cameras, or whether it will be present on devices other than Google's own brand, if eventually expanded. However, this feature is quite interesting, and hopefully it will soon be present in the wide-released developer and device applications. This was quoted from The Verge.