QR Codes Information

[Ralph Malph]

Where can I find information on QR codes on the developers.google.com site? I found this article, but it indicates that the API is deprecated.

I want to embed a QR code image in an e-mail that's dynamically generated based on values tied to a lead in an e-mail marketing platform, but I want to avoid using this method if it's on its way out.

The above article references the "charts" API, but I couldn't find anything on QR codes specifically. I found other references to QR codes, but they appear to be specific to building applications on Android.

Once again, this seems to work fine, but I don't want to spend time implementing based on a method that's being deprecated.

<img src="http://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&choe=UTF-8&chld=H&chl=http://www.nike.com" width="300" height="300" alt="QR Code" title="" />

[Jon Orwant]

We make no promises about the long-term availability of QR code generation in Google Image Charts. That said, we also have no intentions of turning it off in the short term. 

So, your call. Sorry we can't be more prognostic!

Jon

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[Ralph Malph]

Well, that's something. Thank you, Jon!

Any insight into how popular/frequently leveraged QR code generation is? I imagine that would factor into Google's decision around continued support. I've read a lot of blog posts pronouncing the "death of the QR code", but I'm curious what Google's stats say.

[Jon Orwant]

Ah, now that's an interesting question.  I do think that the phenomenon of people photographing QR codes in order to avoid typing in URLs has peaked, although I say that on the basis of industry gestalt rather than Google logs. But hey, it's a barcode. They don't die. We'll continue to see them around, even if it's just in situations where other barcodes would do just as well, like on boarding passes.

My original response was ill-phrased, since it implied that Google might decide to remove QR code generation from within Google Image Charts. That will not happen. What might happen is that Google could turn off all of Google Image Charts. 

If that happens, I think you won't have too much trouble finding an alternative solution. Chart generation can be difficult to do well, but QR code generation is dead simple.

Jon

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Ralph Malph <osman.erz...@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, that's something. Thank you, Jon!

Any insight into how popular/frequently leveraged QR code generation is? I imagine that would factor into Google's decision around continued support. I've read a lot of blog posts pronouncing the "death of the QR code", but I'm curious what Google's stats say.

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