Re: Recognising (or not) QR codes

Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-07-02 09:07, Chris Green wrote:

Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

On 02.07.25 08:09, Chris Green wrote:

However my comment still stands about places that say "just scan the
QR code" without pointing out that you might have to install a program
for this to work.

>
99.9% of the smartphones do exactly that out of the box without the need
to install additional software.
>

Not 99.9% of the ones in our household they don't! :-)  Ok, mine is
not a mainstream one (but bought because it reputedly has very close
to 'standard' Android apps), but the other is a Moto which is pretty
'ordinary'.

 
My Motos do recognize dot codes in the supplied camera app. Maybe yours
is too old.

  Indeed. Chris' Umidigi Bison phone is Android 11 and perhaps the Moto
is similarly 'old'.

  My Samsung Glaxy A51 came with Android 10 and I'm quite sure it's
(Samsung's) Camera app did not support QR code scanning at the time.
Later - it was upgraded to Android 11, 12 and 13 - it did support QR
code scanning. So possible Chris' phones had a similar (non-)feature
history.