Camera Scanner doesn't have Cancel Button in Android

[DhruvaBhaskara]

While performing the Barcode scanning using Android device, cancel button is not appearing. Please let us know if there are any configuration option to enable this.

[Eccenux]

On Android you can use built-in back button. Cancel buttons are generally not needed in Android apps.

[fgrs]

in my build built-in back button closes the app...

[carricha]

same for me: back button fires twice and closes the app on S4 4.4.2...

[nraboy]

Back button closes app on my Nexus 5 with 4.4.4

[Eccenux]

Strange... I think it worked fine before. As a workaround you can change location or push state just before you open the scanner and change it back once it finishes. Something like this:

history.pushState({}, "scanner", "#scanner");
runScanner(function(data){
    history.go(-1);
    ...
})

Keep in mind that changing state might affect how you're app works.

[Freundschaft]

some issue here as well, funny enough, if I insert an alert statement in the success handler of the barcode scanner, the issue does not occur.

also the workaround is not working for me as well :(

it seems like the back button is triggered twice after app resume. I made a workaround by temporarily disabling the back button action on barcode scan cancellation and reenabling it once the back button was erroneously fired once.

[danicomas]

$window.history.back(-1) [workaround but It causes a strange effect]

[danicomas]

@pbernasconi of ngCordova said: "I'm afraid I can't change the functionality of the Camera or BarcodeScanner plugin, so you'll have to submit an issue to the respective repos themselves."

Can you change it?

Thanks In Advance! @wildabeast @Eccenux @filmaj @JaysonRaymond

[vasnakos]

Same issue here! Pressing back button on android, closes the app. Any solution?

[Eccenux]

I posted a solution in my comment. Did you try it?

[vasnakos]

Yeah, and it didn't work. In fact i try to go back in the pushed state when i get a result.cancelled. As a url I pass the id of the div I want to show if the user presses the back button.

[lmribeiro]

One more: back button fires twice. @Eccenux i try your solution, it works but is not pretty.

[itsmebhavin]

I am having same problem as well. Back button closes the app. Any solution? S5 and 4.4.2

[ghost]

+1 on LG G2 4.4.2

[skyneverdies]

This works for me, I add an messaje that the scanner was cancelled only with an alert validating the field result.text like this:

function fileViewSuccess(result) { console.log("We got a barcode Result: " + result.text); if(result.cancelled == true){ alert("Was cancelled"); }else{ ///do something... } }