ScannerApp

A cross-platform .NET MAUI app for scanning barcodes.

Features

• Barcode scanning via BarcodeScanning.Native.Maui
• Targets Android, iOS, Mac Catalyst (and Windows when building on Windows)

Prerequisites

• .NET SDK (repo targets .NET 9 / MAUI)
• MAUI workloads installed

Install workloads:

dotnet workload install maui

Run

Restore:

dotnet restore

Android

dotnet build -t:Run -f net9.0-android

iOS (macOS only)

dotnet build -t:Run -f net9.0-ios

iOS (Development IPA)

To generate an .ipa for development you must have Apple code-signing set up on your Mac:

• Apple Developer account
• iOS Development certificate installed in Keychain
• Development provisioning profile for your bundle id (default is com.companyname.scannerapp)

Verify signing identities:

security find-identity -v -p codesigning

Build the IPA:

dotnet publish -c Release -f net9.0-ios -p:RuntimeIdentifier=ios-arm64 -p:BuildIpa=true -p:ArchiveOnBuild=true

If you need to specify the signing key explicitly:

dotnet publish -c Release -f net9.0-ios -p:RuntimeIdentifier=ios-arm64 -p:BuildIpa=true -p:ArchiveOnBuild=true -p:CodesignKey="Apple Development: YOUR NAME (TEAMID)"

Mac Catalyst (macOS only)

dotnet build -t:Run -f net9.0-maccatalyst

Windows (Windows only)

dotnet build -t:Run -f net9.0-windows10.0.19041.0

Notes

• Camera permissions are required for scanning (handled per platform by MAUI).

Automation (BrowserStack camera injection)

If you run automated tests on BrowserStack and need to test scanning flows, use BrowserStack’s Camera Image Injection feature.

• Docs: Camera image injection (App Automate)
• BrowserStack home: https://www.browserstack.com/

Important: cameraImageInjectionUrl must be a direct link to an image (.png / .jpg), not a normal webpage URL (so https://www.browserstack.com/ by itself won’t work as the injection payload).

Example Appium capabilities (conceptual):

{
  "enableCameraImageInjection": true,
  "cameraImageInjectionUrl": "https://your-hosted-assets.example.com/test-barcode.png"
}

License

MIT. See LICENSE.