https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-qr-scanner

Privacy Friendly QR Code Scanner for Android
https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-qr-scanner

Last synced: 3 months ago
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Privacy Friendly QR Code Scanner for Android

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-qr-scanner
• Owner: SecUSo
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2015-09-28T09:11:50.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-26T14:44:45.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-27T15:08:50.768Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Java
• Homepage: https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/QR_Scanner.php
• Size: 41.3 MB
• Stars: 304
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 46
• Open Issues: 36
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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• awesome-android - Privacy Friendly QR Scanner - A QR / bar code scanner (Productivity / 2FA and TOTP)
• awesome-android - Privacy Friendly QR Scanner - A QR / bar code scanner (Productivity / 2FA and TOTP)

README

        
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[PFA]: https://secuso.org/pfa

[Mastodon]: https://xn--baw-joa.social/@SECUSO_Research

[Twitter]: https://twitter.com/SECUSOResearch



# Privacy Friendly QR Scanner

[](https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.secuso.privacyFriendlyCodeScanner)

The Privacy Friendly QR Scanner belongs to the group of Privacy Friendly Apps. The app supports its users in detecting malicious links: QR Codes provide new possibilities for an attacker, as QR Codes can contain malicious links, i.e. links to phishing webpages or webpages from which malware would automatically be downloaded. Therefore it is important to carefully check the link before accessing the corresponding webpage.

This app is optimized regarding the user's privacy. It only uses the device's camera in order to decode QR codes and barcodes.

## Motivation

Privacy Friendly QR Scanner belongs to the group of Privacy Friendly Apps and has been developed to provide a privacy friendly QR-Code/Barcode decoding application. More information can be found on https://secuso.org/pfa

## Building 

Further development requires Android Studio, we recommend to use the latest version.

 

### API Reference

Mininum SDK: 17

Target SDK: 34

This app uses the help of the [ZXing Projekt](https://github.com/zxing).

## Translation

If you want to help translate this app, you can use [Weblate](https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/pfa/qr-scanner/qr-scanner-android-app/).

## Data Backup

You can use the [Privacy Friendly Backup app](https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-backup) to backup and restore this application's data. This can also be used to migrate your data to a new phone.

## License

Privacy Friendly QR Scanner is licensed under the GPLv3.

Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Philipp Rack 


Copyright (C) 2018-2022 Christopher Beckmann 


This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program. If not, see .

The icons used in the nagivation drawer are licensed under the [CC BY 2.5](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/). In addition to them the app uses icons from [Google Design Material Icons](https://design.google.com/icons/index.html) licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. All other images (the logo of Privacy Friendly Apps, the SECUSO logo and the app logo) copyright Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2016-2020).

## Contributors

App-Icon: Markus Hau & Tatjana Albrandt