https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/700d0ffc-f63f-4dad-8f12-3d938ae5417b The barcode scanner market is a walled garden hostile to flexibility. Vendors enforce their proprietary SDKs or applications, documentation is often limited or missing, sometimes it is even required to sign a contract before getting software access to purchased devices. This locks the user inside a single ecosystem, as switching to a different option would mean rewriting software specific to the device. enioka Scan is an open-source Android library enabling users to choose the device vendors that really fit their criteria at any given time. It exposes a single API compatible with all supported scanning devices, working on top of a vendor-specific SDKs made open-source whenever possible. The library handles per-device specifics, so the user can focus on the functional aspects of their application. It is also designed to be easily extended with more support for devices not yet compatible. In this presentation, we will go over the causes of vendor lock-in in the context of barcode scanning devices. After a quick history of the project, we will have an overview of how the library works and how it manages to handle devices from different vendors. Finally, we will explain how you can contribute to this project, and why your help matters. Speaker: Antoine Gonzalez, Track: Embedded, Mobile and Automotive devroom, Room: UD2.120 (Chavanne), When: Saturday 3 February 2024, 14:00–14:15 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Slides & links Presentation slides, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “enioka Scan: say No! to vendor lock-in for your barcode scanners” by Antoine Gonzalez, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/ud2120/fosdem-2024-2103-enioka-scan-say-no-to-vendor-lock-in-for-your-barcode-scanners.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:11:34 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/700d0ffc-f63f-4dad-8f12-3d938ae5417b All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.