Generate Barcode And QR Code In Xamarin for Android

Generating QR codes for a robust user experience

Introduction

Here, I am going to discuss how to generate Barcodes or QR codes in Xamarin for Android. In order to do this, we need to get some information from the user, such as what message they want to convert, the code format they want to use, and their desired bitmap size. There is no default library for this, so we need to install a plugin.

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Just write a few lines of code to generate 1D and 2D code. Barcodes have different formats, but I will demonstrate only a few code formats — Code 39, Code 128, AZTEC, and QR Code. Below is our final output for the project, so you can visualize our end-result throughout the tutorial.