How To: Add Codiscan pairing barcode to the Soti Launcher

This How-To describes how to add a pairing barcode for the CodiScan into the Soti Kiosk launcher.

This feature is described here: Pairing Intent | Technical Documentation

To add an entry into the Soti kiosk a Home Screen Item like this where you select Intent as action:

(Make sure you select a Custom Image or nothing is shown!)

As intent you fill in this:

#Intent;component=com.datalogic.aladdinapp;action=com.datalogic.aladdinapp.ACTION_EXTERNAL_PAIRING_ACTIVITY;i.autoclose=2;B.showLogo=True;S.bgColor=FFFFFF;S.titleColor=002696;S.title=Scan%20QR%20Code%20to%20pair%20your%20device;end

This intent uses all the Default parameters. You can change the parameters to your liking. The Soti Kiosk does not accept special characters like spaces. Make sure you use %20 for a space.

By default the Soti Launcher block non-whitelisted apps. So it can be necesarry to add the Aladdin app to the Launcher. You can do it like this:


(Tip: The latest versions of Soti has the ability to hide the icon of Aladdin so the user cannot access it directly)

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