News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus. Parent comment

Re:The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus by MishaalRahman on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:16PM (#33389851)
Some OEM camera apps have built-in QR code detection (using Google Lens or something else) but not all do.

Starting in Android 13, a QR code scanner is accessible from Quick Settings on all GMS devices. This QR code scanner is built into Google Play Services though so it's not available on AOSP builds.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus by Animats on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:57AM (#33391899)
Right. I use F-Droid and have Google stuff turned off. I do have an app, Binary Eye, that can scan QR codes, UPC codes, Code 39, etc. But it doesn't have permission to launch a browser. I have to paste the code into Fennec. I need to do this maybe twice a year.

I've never seen QR codes in restaurants in Silicon Valley.

[ Parent | on HN ]