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phonegap plugin barcodescanner not working on iOS

We are developing application for phonegap (2.4.0) - iOS (6) and Android platforms. Our app is using BarcodeScanner plugin. Plugin is working without any problems on Android, but we have detected some problems on iOS.

At first in the file CDVBarcodeScanner.mm CDVPlugin.h was not found, so we commented if/else check around this line: #import <CORDOVA/CDVPlugin.h> and to config.xml file we have added this line: <plugin name="org.apache.cordova.barcodeScanner" value="CDVBarcodeScanner" /> Then was build successfull without any errors, but after clicking on scan button nothing happened and nothing was written to output.

Then we compared barcodescanner.js for Android and iOS and found that after adding logs at the end of Android js file:

if(!window.plugins) {
    console.log("something 1");
    window.plugins = {};
}
if (!window.plugins.barcodeScanner) {
    window.plugins.barcodeScanner = new BarcodeScanner();
    console.log("something 2");
}

output was written after starting of application. In the case of iOS we have also added to similar part some console logs: 

(function() {
   if (!window.plugins) window.plugins = {}
   console.log("something 1");
   if (!window.plugins.barcodeScanner) {
        window.plugins.barcodeScanner = new BarcodeScanner();
        console.log("something 2");
   }
   else {
        console.log("Not installing barcodeScanner: window.plugins.barcodeScanner already exists")
   }
})

but no one was written.

Thanks for every advice.

Solution

  • We have tried these changes and plugin works:

    1. we downgraded to phonegap 2.3
    2. we set -O0 compile flags to zxing-all-in-one.cpp
    3. checked all added libraries