I was wondering if it was possible to use the iphone as a barcode scanner to input data into FM. I know that android has a barcode scanner app that can read barcodes but is there a way to get that into FM using either android or iphone?

This is definitely possible. FileMaker Go has to ask another iOS app to scan and decode the barcode, then return the value to FileMaker by passing it as a parameter to a script. You can do this with CNS Barcode ($15) and pic2shop (free). There's an article with the specifics on how to do it on Skeleton Key's blog. If you have money to blow on a bluetooth barcode scanner, you can use that with a lot less programming work, and the performance will be substantially faster. Zero Blue did a post about that.

This is definitely possible. FileMaker Go has to ask another iOS app to scan and decode the barcode, then return the value to FileMaker by passing it as a parameter to a script. You can do this with CNS Barcode ($15) and pic2shop (free). There's an article with the specifics on how to do it on Skeleton Key's blog. If you have money to blow on a bluetooth barcode scanner, you can use that with a lot less programming work, and the performance will be substantially faster. Zero Blue did a post about that.

Thanks! This helps a lot!