Just a quick question to the userbase:
We are currently relying on the EMDK (for Android v3.1) barcode scanning component for scanning barcodes in one of the applications that we're developing.
Because the EMDK profile manager has no settings interface available to the end-user (or at least not one that we know of!), we are currently considering two options:
either switch entirely to using Datawedge’s barcode scan functionality or (preferably) at least be able to read out the DataWedge profile so that we can use those settings to alter the EMDK-based scan settings on-the-fly.
1. Is there a currently supported or unsupported way of reading out a Datawedge profile programmatically?
2a. If we were to have to follow an unsupported route... are the profile settings stored in a physical file for which we could eventually write our own parser/importer for reading out the settings and then applying them?
2b. Or would our only resolve be to try to programmatically export the current datawedge settings and then import them into the application logic and apply them to the EMDK settings?
Thanks in advance.
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Hello Marian, To my knowledge, there is no programmatic way to read DataWedge profiles. The Profiles can be manually configured and exported, and then the profile can be imported back in when placed in the DataWedge auto-import folder. DataWedge stores the profile and values in a private SQLite database and is not made available to end developers.
All that being said, How granular are the changes you are making to the profile. Are you needing to turn on/off individual settings, or could you build a set of profiles for specific use cases, and copy one of those profiles into the auto-import folder when needed?