Hello all, I am building an app that uses a QR code/barcode scanner. I also recently bought a PRO membership so I can more easily distribute my app. I notice that the QR/Barcode scanner is not an available feature for web apps. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to incorporate a QR code/barcod…

If that doesn’t work, you should be able to take the photo, upload to cloudinary, then use an Api like to decode the image. The biggest issue that you will experience using this process is that you cannot control the image size being sent to cloud Ineri. We have zero control over the file size of t…

I think I have everything in correctly, but it is not letting me take the physical picture. Any thoughts? [CodeSnip]

I’d start by testing a very simple call to the camera - does that work alone (in a separate project)? It’s possible that you’ve previously told your browser that it cannot have camera access (or that your default security settings do so), and so calling the camera is failing as a result.

Here’s a super simple project that works with my desktop web browser… Thunkable ← copy link for testing yourself https://thunkable.site/w/yDZjeT1fR ← published web app. It works on my iphone in thunkable live but NOT when viewed as a web app with safari on the same phone (although I did get the …

This works on my desktop, but not my phone. I care more about the phone. I can to the same conclusion.

Is installing an app a possibility? Otherwise, the user could manually take a photo (using the phone’s native camera app) and then upload it into the web app – probably – but that sounds clunky.

For whatever reason, my app works on iOS but crashes on Android, and I have users for both. But the web app works for both, except for a few features like the camera.

The QR code is a shortcut, so by the time they do an upload, the other ways would get them there faster.

[image] bnice: my app works on iOS but crashes on Android, and I have users for both. So it might be worth trying to solve that problem, if no one else has a good solution to the camera not working on phones with the web app.

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bnice July 9, 2021, 10:48pm 5

I did that too, no luck. I found this Camera access on mobile web app, which sounds like is my problem.

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