{"id":1138,"date":"2020-08-08T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2020-08-10T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T22:01:08","slug":"scanning-qr-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/2020\/08\/scanning-qr-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanning QR Codes on Android without an App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Samsung smartphone won&#8217;t scan a QR Code straight from the camera.<\/p>\n<p>I found the following instructions and they seem to work:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Open the Google Search app (on my phone, I can hold down the &#8216;home&#8217; button and it will open)<\/p>\n<p>2 Select the gray square with the gray dot in the middle at the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/2020\/08\/scanning-qr-codes\/screenshot_20200808-111241_google_w_arrow\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1137\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1137\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_20200808-111241_Google_w_arrow-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_20200808-111241_Google_w_arrow-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_20200808-111241_Google_w_arrow-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_20200808-111241_Google_w_arrow.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Point the phone at the QR code and move it around so the QR code appears in the display.<\/p>\n<p>4. Once the Google Search app reads the QR code, it presents a link in blue.\u00a0 Tap that link to follow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/2020\/08\/scanning-qr-codes\/img_9721_blurry-crop_1350x2400\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1143 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9721_blurry-crop_1350x2400-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9721_blurry-crop_1350x2400-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9721_blurry-crop_1350x2400-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9721_blurry-crop_1350x2400-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9721_blurry-crop_1350x2400-864x1536.jpg 864w, http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9721_blurry-crop_1350x2400-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9721_blurry-crop_1350x2400.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Samsung smartphone won&#8217;t scan a QR Code straight from the camera. I found the following instructions and they seem to work:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[153,152],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-qr-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brightbill.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}