Overview

Integration Paths

When it comes to integrating with your business application on Android smartphones and tablets, ProGlove Connect offers you maximum flexibility by providing you with three different integration paths. Please read through the guide and choose the path that best fits to your company’s needs.

Software Keyboard

This path enables easy plug & play integration. It is especially recommended for customers seeking Scan2Pair functionality with no need for any sort of deeper and bi-directional communication. It will simply input the scanned barcode directly into the text field of the currently running application. If your business application does support keyboard text fields you usually do not need to change your application to get started with basic barcode scanning. The software keyboard option will act as a virtual keyboard and paste all scanned barcode data into the active field of an application.

Intent

This path is recommended for applications that already use Android Intents to exchange data. It is a drop-in replacement for an existing configuration (e.g. integrated scanners of Zebra devices) using the Android Intent API. A range of industrial browsers, business applications and other device manufacturers are using this method.

SDK

This path allows and requires code-level integration into your application which allows full control over connection and callback features.