[APP][FREE] MGScan barcode scanner

[Tramontana]

Memabilia saves the notes you write and lets you find them by date/time, by the location where you wrote them or by the text they contain.

You can set up reminders (alarms) to fire at a given date/time or when you reach a location that you've named on a Google Maps interface.

It's also a location-based social network tool. You can publish any note as a Report in any one of about ten categories, for anyone else to read if they go to the same location. So you can tell people about local shopping, events, sport, culture etc. If you're proud of where you live, tell the world about it!

Memabilia is new and a bit rough in places, especially the visuals. Please bear with us as we improve it. Feedback will be welcome.

 

[Tramontana]

Easy Coder is a programming system that lets you develop your own apps without requiring any knowledge of Java or XML. And it can be done entirely on your phone, or on your PC with no special tools needed.

In addition to supporting the usual widgets it also has features that make it easy to build all-graphic apps such as games and simulations. Everything is done using friendly, English-like scripts, and our website provides full documentation, examples, your own personal user area where you can write scripts and a forum to ask questions in.

Go to the Easy Coder website for more information.

 

[nghien_rbc]

I have just completed some tutorials on how to customize some basic User Interface component in Android. I hope this helpful for beginner like me. All are available at here:
custom-android-dn.blogspot.com/search/label/Android%20Tutorial?max-results=6

 

[Tramontana]

My Guide is an app for running and building audio-visual guides. It has two main modes of operation:

"Barcode mode" is designed for exhibitions, museums and places of interest. Using the app's website you create a "guide" - a series of pages, each with a picture, a message to play using the speech synthesiser and one or more linked HTML pages. The website displays a QR barcode that you download and print, then paste up next to the item or place of interest. When someone uses the app to scan the barcode, it speaks the message and displays the picture. Our website collects (anonymous) data each time the barcodes are scanned, which can be valuable to the person who created the pages.

"Guided mode" is for creating walking guides. You walk a route, stopping regularly to record the GPS coordinates of waypoints and take photos, both using the app itself. Then you edit the resulting guide, adding spoken messages (as above) for arrival and departure at each waypoint, finally publishing the guide to our website. Once all this is done, walkers download the guide and set off from the starting point. The app plays the messages as they reach each waypoint, and also gives regular updates on heading and estimated time to the next waypoint. The whole thing is normally done with the phone kept in a pocket, which saves battery power and avoids having to squint at the screen in bright sunlight. If any interaction is needed it asks you to shake the phone to confirm a spoken question.

To get started, aim your phone's browser at Barcodes for Android, or use a barcode scanner (e.g. Zxing) to scan this QR code, and open your browser with the URL it contains.

 

[Tramontana]

OK so there are hundreds of barcode scanners, but MGScan isn't just about scanning; it's also about creating barcodes on its companion website at mgscan.com. So first here are the features of the app:

• Scan any linear or QR barcode.
• QR barcodes that are URLs call your browser to go to that page.
• Linear and non-URL barcodes display their contents.
• Barcodes created on the MGScan website play a voice message and show a picture as well as calling your browser to display the URL.
• All QR barcodes are saved in the History and can be retrieved at any time.
• If you don't have a data connection when scanning, the barcode is saved to History for later use.
• History is editable.
• Multilingual capability - the scanner selects content in its own language if available.
• Uses the award-winning Scandit scanner library for quick response and high accuracy.

On the MGScan website you create your barcodes, that can be read with any scanner app on any phone type. If they are read with the MGScan app (Android only) the user hears a spoken voice message (recorded or synthesised - your choice) and sees a full-screen image. A button then leads to further information (the web page shown to non-MGScan users) and another button replays the voice message.

For your content we recommend the use of Lola Pages, a free service that lets you easily create mobile-friendly pages. If your website isn't optimised for mobile you can use these to provide readable content when people scan your barcodes or reach you from Facebook. And if you don't have a website at all you may not need one; you can create your own mobile-optimised pages to present to the growing number of mobile Web users, who now outnumber those on PCs.

Typical uses of barcodes:

• General publicity. Put barcodes on business cards, leaflets, shop windows, vehicles and websites.
• "Talking guides" for museums and art galleries.
• Product information on packaging.
• Tourist information at sites of interest.

 

[Unforgiven]

Merged per the "one thread per developer" policy.

http://androidforums.com/app-game-a...requirements-posting-thread-here-read-me.html

Let me know if you have any questions.

 

[Tramontana]

Please note: My Guide has now been relaunched as Sherpa. See http://sherpa.guide.

 

[Tramontana]

Where are you?​

Beacon is a location sharing app that shows you where your friends are and shows them where you are. It's simple to use and doesn't put a heavy load on your phone battery.

Beacon uses a code you give to others so they can track you. It handles any number of other beacons, displaying them on a live Google map. Each pin can show a photo provided by its owner so you can tell who is who.

Click or scan the barcode to go to the mobile website
Or click here to go to the desktop site.​

 

[Tramontana]

This is a screenshot of Silly Photos, which lets anyone share funny pictures for others to view. It's one of a number of Scrapps - Scripted Apps - that run on the MGScan barcode scanner app. MGScan maintains its own ScrappYard, a repository for these things.

Anyone can write a Scrapp. The scripting language is simple to learn and there's plenty of help available on the website. It's far easier than learning to program Android the conventional way, so if you'd like to take up programming but don't know where to start, give it a try. Go to the MGScan website:

http://mgscan.com

where you'll find a link to download the app from the Play Store. On the home screen is a button labelled ScrappYard, which leads to a list of Scrapps including Silly Photos and several others, some of which you can see the source by going to the Examples page at the website:

http://mgscan.com/index.php?template=ref&page=examples

If you find things too complex, go to the Forum and post a question or send us an email.

 

[Tramontana]

MGScan has been updated to detect iBeacons. For any nearby beacon you can create your own page of data that will be held on our server and shown to anyone else who passes the same beacon. This works for any iBeacon, whether you supplied it or not. The latest version of the MGScan app is for KitKat and above. Go to http://mgscan.com for more information and to download the app.