PURE C
Android NativeActivity with no Kotlin or Java application code and no AndroidX.
OFFLINE BY DESIGN
An offline QR scanner for Android. APK under 100 KB.
TinyQR scans and decodes QR codes directly on your device — without accounts, cloud services, analytics, advertising, or network access.
APK UNDER 100 KB
ARM64-V8A ONLY
OFFLINE
NO ADS
NO ANALYTICS
TINYQR / SCAN CORE001
SMALL FOOTPRINT.EVERYTHING STAYS HERE.
$ tinyqr --architecture
Built for size.
TinyQR is an experiment in how small a useful Android app can be while keeping QR decoding on-device.
NATIVE CAMERA2
Camera frames stay on the device and are decoded by the vendored quirc library.
ARM64-V8A ONLY
TinyQR ships exclusively for 64-bit ARM Android devices, keeping the release focused on one modern ABI.
- No analytics SDKs or advertising SDKs.
- No Internet permission.
- No user accounts, cloud storage, or remote QR-decoding service.
$ tinyqr --benchmark v1.1.0
APK under 100 KB on arm64-v8a.
TinyQR ships only for arm64-v8a Android devices. The latest measured APK, v1.1.0, is 67,506 bytes — below 100 KB (100,000 bytes).
| Version | Measurement date | arm64-v8a APK size | libtinyqr.so |
|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1.0 | 67,506 B / 65.92 KiB | 47,464 B / 46.35 KiB | |
| v1.0.0 | Not recorded | 70,652 B / 69.00 KiB | 50,848 B / 49.66 KiB |
The size claim refers to the APK file; installed storage usage and runtime memory are separate measurements. The v1.1.0 row measures the optimized signed tinyqr-small.apk; the v1.0.0 row retains the earlier unsigned release APK benchmark. Native library sizes are the uncompressed libtinyqr.so entries inside each APK. Google Play builds may differ because of signing, resources, icons, and later application changes.
$ tinyqr --privacy
Private by design.
QR codes are decoded locally on your device. TinyQR does not upload scanned images or QR contents, does not use analytics, and does not contain advertising.
No scanned content is sent to quirc or any external service.