cordova-plugin-scanner-input

This is an Apache Cordova plugin which allows a web app to intercept text coming from non-standard APIs. It creates an invisible dialog which it focuses when the device's trigger key is pressed. Inside it, there is a standard EditText component which can receive input from code which erroneously looks for a focused input whose text to set.

Such code has been encountered on a device with a built-in bar code scanner.

Usage

1. Install the plugin through the cordova plugin add command.
2. Listen for the scannerinput event on window:

function onScannerInput(event) {
	console.log(event.input);
}
window.addEventListener('scannerinput', onScannerInput, false);

Notes

The plugin can easily be modified to support multiple trigger keys, right now it expects keyCode to be 220. Do not remove the seemingly useless clobber inside js-module in plugin.xml because the plugin's JavaScript file is not loaded otherwise.