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Issue 22.6 ('Preemptive Threads')
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Meet someone via QR code or file

Issue: 22.6 (November/December 2024)
Author: Stefanie Juchmes-Simonis
Author Bio: Stefanie studied computer science at the university in Bonn. She came in touch with Xojo due to the work of her brother-in-law and got a junior developer position in early 2019 at Monkeybread Software.
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I was recently at a conference, and all the participants had a name badge with a QR code on it. When you scanned it, you were taken to a website where you could get the person's contact information. This gave me the idea for today's article.

But today, I don't want to show you how to hide a link in a QR code, because we've already done that. Instead, I want to show you how you can save the data for a contact as a vCard in a QR code. This way, a smartphone can simply transfer the info directly into a contacts list.

What's a VCard?

What I want to save in the QR code for this purpose is a vCard. This is an electronic business card that we can export from an Apple address book, for example. Let's take a look at such an entry.

To do this, we first export a contact from our address book and open it with a text editor. The output looks like this:

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