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The title is pretty self explanatory on this one.

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  • While Android can read QR codes, how is this an Android question? Certainly I see a dearth of Android-based solutions in the answers.
    – ale
    Commented Jul 23, 2012 at 18:58
  • I guess it's not, but at the time of the question it was a novel function on Android devices and seemed particularly relevant to Android users.
    – Matt
    Commented Jul 24, 2012 at 3:57
  • Do you mean creating QR codes on an Android device itself? If so, you may want to mention it in the question.
    – Chahk
    Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 15:09
  • Here is simple and quick QR code generator: tool.tonytuan.org/#/QrCode . Just paste any text (such as URL) to the input and it will generate QR CODE immediately.
    – cwtuan
    Commented Feb 11, 2019 at 9:57

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Using the goo.gl URL shortener: http://goo.gl/a4Wv and adding a .qr to the end of it: http://goo.gl/a4Wv.qr

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  • Looks like it's not supported again. Firebase says: Invalid Dynamic Link
    – Andrew T. ♦
    Commented Feb 5, 2021 at 11:48
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The Google Charts API is definitely the easiest. You just make a URL as follows:

https://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=150x150&cht=qr&chl=<content>&choe=UTF-8

Content is usually a link, for example, this is a link to this site:

alt text

https://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=150x150&cht=qr&chl=https://android.stackexchange.com/&choe=UTF-8

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You can also make ASCII QR codes (mainly for websites like Reddit): http://asciiqr.com/

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    While not the "easiest" way to make a QR code, it is certainly awesome!
    – Jere.Jones
    Commented Oct 7, 2010 at 14:56
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KAYWA

easy as adding a link and click generate. Can generate for sms, text or phone numbers.

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  • This is my favorite option as well because it can do more than typical url shortening service.
    – jmbouffard
    Commented Feb 3, 2011 at 19:40
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You can turn the url of the page your are viewing into a QR Code easily with these bookmarklets:

  1. This one creates a pop-up where you can edit the url. It's a two click process:

    javascript:var sCode=prompt('Enter URL to encode',window.location);void(window.open('http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl='+encodeURIComponent(sCode),'Qr code','top=100,left=200,width=350,height=350,status=yes'));

  2. This one is a one click and done process:

    javascript:(function(){if(document.getElementById){var x=document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0);var o=document.createElement('script');if(typeof(o)!='object') o=document.standardCreateElement('script');o.setAttribute('src','http://qrbookmarklet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/qr.js');o.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');x.appendChild(o);}})();

Just create a bookmark in your Chrome or FF browser bar and paste the above code into the URL field of the bookmark.

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If you're looking for an Android app that does that, try "QR Droid".

It lets you do this: - In the Browser, when your viewing URL that you want to share, select "Menu" > "More" > "Share page" > "QR Droid" - There, you'll be able to generate QR code with a click, and to optionally shorten it first so resulting QR code has less data an therefore is easier to read by decoders

After generating QR code, it allow you to share image or URL from Google Chart as text

I hope it helps

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I'm a big fan of QR Code Generator from the ZXing Project. It's a web app that quickly lets you enter in any text to create a QR code.

It will also allow you to enter structured info (URL's, Contact Info, Wifi-network credentials), and creates QR Codes from that. The benefit there is that you may have apps that are set up to handle structured data.
E.g.: a URL QR code will automatically open up your web browser at that address. Contact QR codes will create a new contact in your address book, and so on.

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