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ML Kit barcode scanning on Android in 2026: how Stocky adds a pantry item in under a second
A practical 2026 guide to on-device barcode scanning with ML Kit and CameraX: format tuning, offline product lookup, and the partial-use math behind a pantry app.
#android
#engineering
#kotlin
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Privacy-first OCR on Android: how Subly reads bills without the cloud
A practical 2026 guide to on-device OCR on Android with ML Kit Text Recognition — the setup, the code, and the field extraction tricks that keep user data off your servers.
#android
#engineering
#privacy