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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Recognising (or not) QR codes
Date: 3 Jul 2025 19:08:59 GMT
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VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
[...]
> >   I think for the majority of people, the built-in Camera app of their
> > phone will do everything they need and will be safe, because QR scanning
> > is a basic functionality since many years.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Not in my camera app ... of many years.  I don't have Android 11, and
> whatever phone and model the OP has.  Mine is an old Android 8.0.0
> phone, and, nope, no QR code scanning it the embedded camera app.  And
> why I mentioned getting a QR scanning app.  Android 8.0 was released
> back in 2017.

  Yes, I know you've an 'old' phone. Note that I said "for the majority
of people". The majority of people will have new(er) phones.

> The OP's camera app also doesn't, according to his description, include
> QR scanning, and he's on Android 11 which was released in 2020.  Doesn't
> seem to be the pervasive feature you think it is.

  Yes, Carlos and I already addressed that. Sad that Android 11 is
'old', but it is. Even my Android 13 phone is 'old'.

> Neither the OP or I have a Samsung phone.  What you experience with
> Samsung is not incumbent on every other phone brand and model.

  Carlos mentioned that his Moto phone (phones?) also has QR scanning
capability and so have several others for their phones.

  Bottom line: No QR scanning capability is the odd one out, not the
common situation.