Why your phone’s camera is secretly a barcode scanner Modern phones treat barcodes and QR codes as just another kind of visual information, so the same camera you use for photos can also read the ...

As smartphones have become more and more ubiquitous, so have QR codes. These maze-looking squares are a type of matrix bar code that contains data — usually, QR codes point to a website or open a ...

Back in July, Google widely introduced a redesign of the Android QR code scanner, but then rolled it back. The updated interface is now starting to reappear. This is the QR code scanner available from ...

Google is rolling out the redesigned Android QR scanner UI again after briefly pulling the update. The refreshed QR scanner comes via Google Play Services 25.46.32, though many users still haven't ...