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Please note that this is outdated documentation for an older release of the Scandit Barcode Scanner SDK.
We encourage you to migrate to 6.x and take advantage of our latest / advanced features and improved performance.
You'll find the updated documentation at: Data Capture SDK Documentation for Android
Some Android 2.3+ devices with incomplete camera drivers only support a landscape camera feed. To allow barcode scanning in portrait mode on these devices, the Scandit BarcodeScanner offers a non-customizable, full screen fallback that emulates a portrait scan user interface. To determine whether a certain device only supports landscape camera feeds, the Scandit BarcodePicker offers a static method BarcodePicker.canRunPortraitPicker().
The following snippet shows you can support these old devices and scan in portrait mode: