I’ve been collecting interesting stories of my fellow iOS developers related to Barcodes and iOS. Anecdotes are the spice of life. You might not think it possible, but this 40 year old technology is still good for many surprises.
Ronan O Ciosoig wrote:
I was working with barcodes a few years back (during 2009-2013) but since then I haven’t been in that area.
We were using ZBar back then. What I remember is that when Apple updated iOS to support barcode reading they didn’t add support for all the barcode types that ZBar supported – some were missing that are used quite frequently in the food industry.
At the time I build a prototype using both methods, and sure enough the iOS native solution was insanely fast – so much so that I had to the breaks on it, and slow down the response time as it was giving too many hits. I haven’t been involved since so I have no idea if this is still the case.
If I do happen to have a project in the area again, I’ll be sure to get your book.
Brendan Duddridge wrote:
When I first heard about this book I was really looking forward to getting my hands on it. Now that I have it, I can see that Oliver did an excellent job making it. It is very well written with lots of great information about barcodes.
The release of this book couldn’t have been better timing for me. I am a developer myself and I used the information in this book along with the excellent code samples to add barcode printing support to my Mac app.
As a developer, all I can say is you should get this book. Barcodes are everywhere and this book makes it simple to understand the wide variety of different code formats available. And the code samples provided for both scanning and printing of barcodes will literally save you hundreds of hours of development time.
What more can you ask? Buy it now.
Geoff Breemer wrote:
If you think this book is only for barcode nutters, think again. The great thing about this book is that it uses barcodes to introduce a wide range of iOS technologies. The many elaborate examples it includes go well beyond the usual tiny snippets of code that come with other books.
The time Oliver invested in tinkering with AV Foundation, the camera, Passbook, generating and validating passes, AirPrint, Core Image, NSURLSession, Core Location, JSON, RESTful web APIs, beacons, Core Data and OAuth, will give you a head start and save you valuable time. Time you get to spend on developing your app.
Oliver’s many years of experience programming for iOS is also evident throughout the book. And as a bonus you get BarCodeKit enabling you to generate various types of barcodes on iOS and OS X.
I highly recommend this book. Also make sure to check out Oliver’s blog.
Michael Kaye wrote:
As an iOS developer recently assigned to work on a app that needed to provide barcode scanning (something I had not worked with before), I realised I was going to need some help pretty quickly. That help came in the form of this fantastic book.
The author has covered every aspect of the world of barcode scanning on iOS, from basic scanning, all the way to how the data might be used with iBeacons. The book is well written, well structured and well thought out.
I would highly recommend this book to not just those like me that need a helping hand getting up to speed with barcodes, but to all iOS developers who should be aware to the possibilities of this technology at their finger tips.
You can buy Barcodes with iOS on manning.com or amazon.com. If you buy a paper edition, regardless where you buy it, you get the digital copy from Manning for free.
If you have an interesting testimonial to share, send it to me and I’ll add it to this post.
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