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Barcodegen

Published by Tobias Mueller

Generates barcodes with the zbar library

Open sourceGPL-3.0-only

Highlights

  • Encodes text entered on the device into a barcode image.
  • Relies on the zbar library for barcode generation rather than a custom encoder.
  • Runs on Android only, with no desktop version listed.
  • Released under GPL-3.0-only, so the source can be inspected and reused under that licence.

About this application

Barcodegen is an Android application that produces barcode images from text you enter on the device. Instead of implementing its own encoder, it hands the work to zbar, the barcode library it is built on, so the set of symbologies it can render follows what that library provides in the bundled build.

The workflow is small in scope: supply the data to encode, let the app generate the corresponding barcode, and use the resulting image on screen or pass it on from the device. This makes it applicable to occasional tasks such as turning an inventory number, an identifier, or a short string into a scannable graphic, rather than to bulk label production or print layout work.

Distribution is limited to Android; there is no desktop counterpart listed. The project is published by Tobias Mueller under the GPL-3.0-only licence, so the source may be studied and redistributed under those terms.

Android

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    Package identifier: de.cryptobitch.muelli.barcodegen

    v0.21.5 MBreleased 09/23/2016

    SHA-256 from the manifest published by F-Droid, compared on 08/04/2026

    48013ffa7ed98df1c62d5f52868dcc09228860b293055e5cd02dccd89e6cb9d3

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