Ralf Kistner

Confirmed. The scanning and camera movement stops, but the red laser keeps on fading in and out.

Those printed digits are most likely not part of the barcode itself - only in the printed text. This discussion seems related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22234424/zxing-not-reading-brazilian-barcode-bills-interleaved-2-of-5-correctly-how-ca

There are two issues here: 1. By converting the binary data to a string, you are most likely already losing some info (e.g. the -1s in the data). 2. The...

I did a quick check and it _may_ be possible to encode binary data directly into the QR Code (byte[], not String), and bypass the String encoding / decoding completely,...

That is expected unfortunately - the debugger significantly slows down the scanning algorithms.

1. Try upgrading to the latest version (currently 4.1.0) - some crashes have been fixed. 2. Rare crashes are generally not worth fixing, unless the cause is obvious. If you...

I'll be happy to merge a pull request for this, as long as it's still easy to enable logging from the application using the library (mostly for bug reports).

Agreed. The Camera2 API also has some nice features, for example being able to use different resolutions for the preview and for decoding. We'll still have to support the old...

@mattfiocca No plans yet, since the current camera implementation works well, and migration to the Camera2 API risks introducing new issues on various devices. That said, pull requests are welcome.

@seasonyuu Which phone is this? Does the [Barcode Scanner](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.android) app work on your device? While the original Camera API has been deprecated for a while, I'm not aware of it...