A benign barcode scanner with more than 10 million downloads from Google Play has been caught receiving an upgrade that turned it to the dark side, prompting the search-and-advertising giant to ...

A popular Android barcode scanner app has been outed as malicious. Barcode Scanner was discovered to harbor a trojan that opens bogus sites and prompts app downloads. The app has since been ...

One of the most popular downloaded scanner apps is simply called Barcode Scanner. To use it, center a bar code within the rectangular viewfinder on your Android display and wait for the camera to ...

ZXing Team’s Barcode Scanner, an app that predates the first official release of Android, is currently getting review-bombed on the Google Play Store. Hundreds of users are leaving 1-star ...

How you obtain a scanner depends on the type of scanner you're planning to get. Application-based scanners can simply be purchased and downloaded from Google Play and the Android Marketplace.