Kick back with some tunes from the Barcode Band!
Today we’re excited to share an amazing video showcasing the “Barcode Band,” an experimental work assembled by a team of creative Korean artists. As you may have guessed, the “barcode band” is a series of barcodes that when scanned produce tones and sounds from typical rock and roll instruments. Through this method the team produced the …
PhoneGap Barcode Scanner Plugin makes Building Product-centric Apps Quick and Easy
Today we’re going to take a look at the PhoneGap Barcode Scanner plugin by Scandit, and explore how developers can benefit from working with this innovative platform. PhoneGap is a popular open source framework for quickly building cross-platform mobile apps using HTML5, Javascript and CSS. The framework is designed to make it easy for web …
Scandit nominated for MassTLC Consumer Product of the Year! Vote Now!
MassTLC, The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, has nominated Scandit’s Barcode Scanner as its consumer product of the year! And we need your vote to win. Our Barcode Scanner SDK boasts the best speed and performance among comparable barcode scanners for Android and iOS devices. Through any-angle scanning and lightning-fast barcode recognition, our scan technology works …
Case Study: Out of Milk provides intuitive shopping lists using Scandit technology
Today we’re excited release another case study detailing the integration of our Scandit barcode scanner SDK into the popular Out of Milk app! Out of Milk was built by Capagami, a Florida-based startup who recently relocated to San Francisco in order to participate in the Bay Area’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. In building Out of Milk, the …
Want to monetize your app? Sell extended warranties for UPC-based products with the Scandit Product API
Last week we announced an exclusive partnership with Warranty Life, an innovative provider of third-party extended warranties. Today we want explain in more detail what this means for developers. Through the new Product API, developers can now sell extended warranties directly within their apps. These warranties cover millions of US and Canadian consumer products, and are …
A Visual Exploration of MobileBeat 2012
Howdy! Last week we attended the annual VentureBeat MobileBeat conference in San Francisco. Hosted at the Palace hotel, this year’s conference took an in-depth look at design and user experience in the mobile space. It was also a huge week of news for us here at Scandit. We announced our all-new community edition, which provides …
Scandit announces partnership with cloud-based mobile development platform Application Craft
Today we’re excited to announce a new partnership with Application Craft. Application Craft makes mobile, tablet and desktop app development easy with its 100% cloud-based mobile development platform. Using Application Craft developers can create their apps once, and deploy them easily on the web and native platforms including iOS and Android. The new partnership comes …
Scandit Community Edition Unveiled: Free Barcode Scanner SDK and Product API
Today were thrilled to reveal the Scandit community edition! Our new offering provides free access to both our best-in-class Barcode Scanner SDK and the all-new Product API, with product data for over 25 million UPCs. The community edition provides access to what is now the largest UPC-based product database on the web and—for the first …
Scandit will be exhibiting at next week’s MobileBeat conference! Stop by for demos and SWAG!
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be exhibiting at next week’s MobileBeat conference on 6/10-6/11 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The conference is put on by the popular VentureBeat blog, and this year’s theme will focus on user experience and design. Sub-themes include tablet strategies, consumerization of IT, infrastructure/cloud, monetization, retail, and designing …
Thoughts on Android 4.1 Jellybean
Last week at the Google I/O conference developers had the chance to have a first look at the Android 4.1 Jellybean release, which is scheduled to be delivered to consumers sometime in July. At I/O we got our hands on the all-new Nexus 7 tablet along with a Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone loaded with Jellybean, …
