iOS DataScannerViewController API Bindings Missing

[MicahKimel]

Apple platform

iOS

Framework version

net8.0-*

Affected platform version

.NET 8

Description

I'd like to be able to use the IDataScannerViewControllerDelegate binding in Maui to scan barcodes. I'm down to contribute and add these bindings in if someone points me in the right direction. It appears someone has made bindings in a nuget package here https://github.com/dadude999/DataScannerViewController-MAUI, but it should really be in Maui.

Thanks!

Steps to Reproduce

Cannot use DataScannerViewControllerDelegate in Maui C#.

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[rolfbjarne]

It seems DataScannerViewController is only available using Swift, and not Objective-C, which means we're unfortunately not able to create bindings at this moment.

The plan is for us to eventually provide these bindings, but it's a lot of work, so I'm not sure when that might be (although it's being worked on at the moment).

[MicahKimel]

Thanks @rolfbjarne, I see now the .net runtimes needs to be update to interact with the ABI for swift visionkit. After seaching the runtime project it doesn't look like much work has been done yet, so I'll jump over to that project and see if I can figure out how to contribute and get this going.

Looks like currently the only native swift bindings that have really been implemented is CryptoKit

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!