Capabilities of the new API in camera Android 5.0 Lollipop Bashny.Net

Many people know that the camera app from Google Play are often unable to give a better picture quality than stock applications from manufacturers. Whether it's support for the regime HDR, exposure adjustment, various add-ons, such as funny dinosaurs, as is done in devaysakh from SONY. But after the arrival of the next version of Android Google has decided to correct this deficiency by introducing a new API for the camera. It is interesting to learn more - take food and a cat! (3.4MB images carefully).

That's what they say on page devoleperskoy version Android 5.0:

Android 5.0 introduces new camera API, which will allow you shoot RAW formats such as YUY and Bayer RAW, as well as control parameters such as exposure, sensitivity and the number of frames in burst modes. New fully synchronized processing system camera will allow you to shoot uncompressed YUV pictures at 30 frames per second on supported devices.

Together with them, you can also remove the data in the form of information about the noise and other data.

Applications broadcasting video streams over the network can now take advantage of H.265 HEVC video codec optimized for encoding and decoding video.

Android 5.0 also provides support for 4K content and sharing playback of compressed video and audio data. Blockquote>
 What does this mean for application developers cameras? Now they can use in their arsenal such things as control of shutter speed and output pictures in uncompressed RAW (DNG). This allows for better dynamics, reducing the amount of noise and all other features uncompressed photos compared to compressed JPEG.

The scheme of the application with the new camera API
But the difference in speed shooting mode:

As can be seen - the difference in the face. Now just have to wait for the final release of Android 5.0 with all the improvements and innovations that will help developers improve the quality of its camera app.

But you can not wait, and try the camera application for the Nexus 5, assembled on the new API from the developer PkmX - L Camera a >. Of course, you must have the latest developer version of Android 5.0. Application is developed with open source. The functions of the application include:

Full manual focus; Manual exposure (0.8 & quot ;, 1/2, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1 / 60, 1/100, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000, 1/2000, 1/4000, 1/8000, 1/16000); Adjusting the ISO ( 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 10000); Display images in DNG; Fast shooting at full resolution at 30 frames per second with a constant focus.
An example on the basis of this application on the Nexus 5 c Android 5.0 DP:

A snapshot from Google Camera:

Picture with application L Camera, slightly processed in RawTherapee:

As seen in the example of a single application, with new API for developers camera will have access to many new features, which were not in previous versions of Android, which can not but rejoice. Needless to say that soon there will be really high quality applications for photography on mobile devices.

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