Android's QR code scanner is getting a redesign for easier one-handed use (APK teardown)

catloaf , 26 days ago

What camera app are they talking about? Because I’m using the stock camera app on my Pixel 6 and it doesn’t look like that. It doesn’t even have a separate scanner mode, you just point it at a QR code and it pops up a link.

DontTreadOnBigfoot , 26 days ago

That looks to me like the Google Lens UI

Edit: yep, it says it right at the top of the screen

catloaf , 26 days ago

Oh, I skipped right over that first image. Would it have killed them to say the app name? Because the word “lens” doesn’t appear anywhere in the article. And I don’t think it’s installed by default; it at least wasn’t installed on my phone when I checked just now. (And the fact that the first link in the article explicitly mentions the Camera app doesn’t help.)

C’mon guys, do better.

Markaos , 24 days ago

It’s not about Lens, they just used it as the preview image for some reason. The built-in QR scanner should be accessible through quick settings tiles (you might have to edit your quick tiles and add it), and when I launch it and go to the recent apps screen, it doesn’t have any app icon, so it is at least somewhat special and not just a regular part of some other app.

Interstellar_1 , 26 days ago

Yay nice