Stefan Hafeneger

This might be one of the last blog posts about by iPhone barcode application. I finally decided to upload the source to Google Code to make it available for anybody who is interested.

The reason is simply I don’t have time to work on it further. I didn’t since about a year now and it does not look like I will have time in the next months.

The code is basically the same as in the version available in the App Store with a few additions that should have been in the next version.

I heard a few complains that the application won’t work in a few situations on phones running iPhone OS 3.0. So if there is anybody who likes to take the code and update it to the latest APIs please let me now.

Also, if someone wants to contribute to this application – I have a couple of cool ideas that might make this app into a really awesome application – please drop me a line. I can then still upload newer versions to the App Store.

Otherwise feel free to use the code for your own projects. I don’t know much about those Open Source licenses so I just picked the first one. I personally don’t really care about this all different licenses, just make sure that you don’t do something illegal while using my code since I am using two other open source projects with different licenses.

Hi, it has been a while since my last post. And this one will not be very long. The reason is: I was quite busy. I’ll write a much longer post in a few days with news about the Barcode App, the multi-touch framework and a few things that will happen this year. So stay tuned.

Version 0.4 of my barcode iPhone application is now available in the App Store. Please send me feedback about the new features and make feature requests.

I’ve completed version 0.4 of my Barcode iPhone application today. I will now do some testing and then upload the binary to the App Store tomorrow. As I’ve previously said this release does not have many new end-user features. So here are the details:

- Small UI Changes
- Barcode Decoding Location
- Detail View for scanned Results
- Location Preview in Detail View
- Open Barcode Location in Maps
- Send SMS to Number
- Remote Barcode Decoding

Please let me know what you think about the new features.

The next release will be a big one and maybe will result in version 1.0. My major goals for that release are:

- UPC and EAN Barcode Decoding
- Improved User Interface
- Auto Detection of Content Type (incl. vCards)
- Wildcard Decoding
- Database Export
- Barcode Encoding
- Customization for Remote Barcode Decoding
- iPod touch support
- Official Website

Since this is a lot of stuff, I would like to give some of you beta versions while I’m developing these new features. So if you are interested, please write me an email.

As I have noted several times before, I’m using open source libraries for the decoding. I currently don’t have the time to look for libraries for other barcode types. So if you want Barcode to support more barcode types and would like to contribute, please search for open source projects, investigate how good they do the job, make sure they compile on Mac OS X and are written in C or C++ (or even Objective-C) and let me know. You should also make sure, that their license allow the use in Barcode.