Decode byte[] to a String in Android using zxing

Question

I'm trying to replace a small bit of functionality that's currently handled by the outdated Zbar library. I'm basically capturing a preview frame using Android's Camera.PreviewCallback and processing the byte[] data into a string. Looking at the ZXing implementation of this from online examples, I'm having a hard time believing that the data needs to go through that many custom objects in order to translate a simple QR byte array to a string. Example: QR Code encoding and decoding using zxing .

Does anybody have a clean solution for this? I'd even be happy with just an explanation of what Zxing is doing (and why).

Thank you in advance!!!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '17 at 23:30

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Consider something like this?

symData = new String(data, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

answered Jul 18 '17 at 23:30

Barney Chambers

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Thank you, but unfortunately this solution did not work. – deMouser Jul 19 '17 at 16:12

Decode byte[] to a String in Android using zxing

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