This week, my main task was to implement barcode scanning capabilities in the app. Initially, before doing any work on the app this was a daunting task. As I did my research, I was able to find multiple Flutter packages that simplified this functionality quite a bit. I selected one of the most popular packages that showed up as a search result when looking for “barcode scanning” on pub.dev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The documentation provided for the package was quite sparse, but luckily there was also a Github repo linked that provided an example implementation. When it came to implementing the barcode scanner package, it was quite simple and self-explanatory when paired with the example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, the package implementation difficulty I would rank it a 2\/5. It was straight-forward and required very little knowledge about the package itself to get up and running. The next step for this functionality is to test it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the emulator, I was not aware that I can use the camera through a webcam. My partner, Mihai, informed that this was possible. So my next task is to test the effectiveness of the barcode scanner and to see the output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My goal for the next week is to implement the Barcode Lookup API to allow for searching of products through a typed search or barcode scanning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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