With the well worth long awaited QR reader plugin. I am using it in one of my app to bring up a website that has a java-script picture randomizer (yes I made that word up) to randomly have pictures of different free offers/specials and so on. I just tried it out and what essentially would be great for the website/picture show up within the app, but it is only showing the square with a blue question mark in it. It is coming up with a desktop browser. When I try to load it in my native browser it opens my mobile website :-(. The picture is a jpg, and i am using Android The goal is to have clients come in once a month to scan a QR code with the reader and have a picture or something randomly come up to offer free stuff. The reason why I want multiple pictures so they wouldn't always get the same thing. I thought this would be the best approach but if anyone else has any suggestion I am totally open on hearing them.

Hi Howard, That seems like a great approach, and exactly what I would do as well. It seems like the issue has to do with the view that the random image is loading in. If you have the plugin configured to access a script on a website (that works in a browser), I would expect it to work in the app as well. I'm gonna join this thread to see what others come up with! Mark

What screen are you pointing to to load the webpage? Is the picture hosted online? It may be that you need to use png images rather than jpg's - Android doesn't do well with jpgs.

I generated a qr code to point to this URL: http://www.beaverbrookah.com/random_test.html The picture is hosted on-line and I changed the format from jpg to png. Now when I try it, it loads the mobile website within the app. I will try and host it on another site that is not mobile. Howard

So it should be loading the custom URL plugin when a URL is present. You can check how it loads by adding a custom URL screen that points to the same URL and seeing how it looks.

@Chris, I am not using the custom URL plug-in, should I be? I was just having the qr code pointed to a real webpage on my website. How would I use the custom URL plug-in Thanks, Howard

sorry Chris, I think I understand now. I will try that.

Perfect! Okay so this is what I did and seem to get it working. I used the custom-URL plugin to test it but more importantly using the png rather than jpg work. I did have to host it on another website because it was loading the mobile website which I am not completely sure why its doing it now and wasn't doing it when I was using jpg file. I have to see if I can not have the link re-direct to the mobile site. Thanks again, Howard