Manufacturing, supply-chain services, retail and healthcare industry databases contain a wealth of information about numerous products that can be tracked with barcodes. When frontline workers can scan barcodes and instantly access those databases, they can make better decisions.

Introduction

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This article assumes familiarity with Zebra's DataWedge tool as well as the DataWedge profile mechanism. For an overview of DataWedge, please refer to the DataWedge Techdocs page

A very common use case for many Zebra Android developers is using the device scanner across multiple activities in their application, this could cover the following:

In this blog, we'll focus on how to get started with the Java Android Link-OS Software Development Kit (SDK). To make it easier, the SDK comes with free developer demos and an apk that can be loaded onto your Android device.

You can access all the Link-OS SDKs here.

This is part 2 of the blog series - Developing Android Apps for the HD4000 - if you missed part 1, you can check it out here!

1. Where can I find the device ID for my device?