Android’s Mobile Vision API

My associate’s wife each year makes custom christmas gifts for companies, and purchases and sales are done with pen and paper which obviously is not very ideal. Commercial products for their fairly simple usecase are expensive and loaded with functionality they won’t ever use.

After some searching I came across Androids Mobile Vision APIs

“With the release of Google Play services 7.8 we’re excited to announce that we’ve added new Mobile Vision APIs which provide bar code detection APIs that read and decode a myriad of different bar code types, quickly, easily and locally.”

Great. Create a simple Android app that scans barcodes, makes some API calls to a DRF backend and create a simple frontend with Angular2 for product admin, sales etc. Should be doable.