Hi everyone,
Is it possible to utilise the SkorpioX5 Scan engine to take pictures from a 3rd party app?
Using the stock “Scanner Camera” works, but every other app gives either black screen or camera error (as is expected).
Is there nmaybe a SDK way to add “Scanner Camera” feature to our custom warehouse app?
Kind regards,
Filip
Please forgive us for such a late reply, but your question required a little research. The TLDR answer is “no,” our API’s do not yet support using the scan engine’s camera in the android.hardware.camera2 interface at this time.
Why?
Unfortunately, the two cameras in the Datalogic DE2172 scan engine are optimized for decoding bar code labels, but the API’s used to support decoding support only bare bones image capture originally intended for helping to diagnose decoding problems. This frame capture capability is implemented in the decoding subsystem, but it has not yet been extended to support the android.hardware.camera2 API yet.
Increased camera support has been requested by another customer, and if you would use such a feature we can pass your feedback on to our product managers.
Again, sorry for the slow reply.
Sincerely,
Scott Kucera
Mobile Computers Specialist Support Engineer