Search our library catalogue from your Android phone (I)

Smartphones are becoming ubiquitous in daily life.  While the majority of smart phone use is for leisure rather than work or study, it makes sense for us library folk to let you know, now and again, ways in which you can use your smartphone in a library context: thus this post.

If you have an Android phone, you can search our catalogue merely by scanning a book's barcode.  How cool is that?  "Not very" I'm sure is the response.   Anyway what you need to do is:

1. Download & install Barcode Scanner from Google Play (it's free)
2. Open the App & go to Settings.
3. Scroll down to "Custom search URL" and enter http://koha.dbs.ie/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=nb&q=%s
4. Ok and exit.
5. Scan the ISBN code of a book. When the ISBN is recognised, touch Custom search, which will open the catalogue record of the book (if it's in the catalogue)

I don't have an iPhone, so I can't say for sure if you can replicate this on that device. 
Browscan - Barcode Scanner (again, it's free) has a custom URL setting, so perhaps you can try that on an iPhone and let us know.