Ted Byers wrote:
This is an important question.
I too have potential clients who want to use their smart phones for POS, as
well as to take inventory (both within their warehouse and on remote job
sites). I have found bar code reader hardware that will put the barcode
data into whatever field in whatever form has focus (regardless of whether
the application is a web app, with which the user is interacting via a
browser, or a dedicated app). Obviously, I want to have the user working
with both the POS and inventory components via the web browser.[snip]
I did a quick search and it looks like the ASL-licensed ZXing
(http://code.google.com/p/zxing/) works on Blackberry as well as on
Android. It wasn't obvious you could use it to enter text into an
arbitrary web application running on the mobile device. Seems like you
have to use it within a custom application.
Richard.
