https://www.hascode.com/tags/zxing/ Recent content in Zxing on Micha Kops' Tech Notes Hugo -- 0.147.8 en Copyright © 2010 - 2025 Micha Kops. #213243b1d6e8932079e09227d3f3ed0c806cd0c9 Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200 https://www.hascode.com/playing-around-with-qr-codes/ Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200 https://www.hascode.com/playing-around-with-qr-codes/ <div id="preamble"> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Sometimes QR codes are a nice way to distribute information like calendar events, contact information, e-mail, geo-locations or internet addresses.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>In the following article we’re going to encode information to QR code images using the ZXing library and afterwards decode information from a given QR code.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Finally we’re taking a look on online QR code generators and how to integrate the ZXing library in a Maven project.</p> </div> <div class="imageblock"> <div class="content"> <img src="qr-code-article.png" alt="qr code article"/> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_the_zxing_library">The ZXing Library</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="ulist"> <ul> <li> <p>Download the ZXing Libraries from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/zxing/downloads/list" class="bare">http://code.google.com/p/zxing/downloads/list</a> – the file name is <em>ZXing-&lt;version&gt;.zip</em></p> </li> <li> <p>Unpack the downloaded archive somewhere</p> </li> <li> <p>Change to the extracted directory and run <em>ant</em>. If you don’t have JavaME installed – and you don’t have to for the samples below – run <em>ant buildwithoutj2me</em> – that will do the job</p> </li> <li> <p>Having compiled the libraries you’re now free to include the <em>core.jar</em> from <em>zxing-&lt;version&gt;/core/</em> and the <em>javase.jar</em> from <em>zxing-&lt;version&gt;/javase</em> as dependency in your project</p> </li> </ul> </div>