Until this version of Android Lollipop 5.0, phones and tablets have a great handicap related to photography and that is you don't have a great user experience when you want to take certain types of photographs, apart from what are the tricks that developers must perform to offer certain features such as taking HDR photos.
This in large part It is due to the Android software and that brings together details As they are: the viewfinder has a low frame rate, inconsistent focus, poor performance in low light conditions, poor post-processing, shutter lag, and inconsistent results. Surely the vast majority of you who have read us have gone through some of these problems with your Android phones, whether from Samsung, Sony, LG or other brands. Let's see what great improvements Android 5.0 Lollipop brings us as it will correct everything said in this paragraph.
Android Camera Operation Without Lollipop
The first process the camera performs is send a request to capture the API camera for an image, the save location and file name are listed here. The camera may not perform the automatic focus of the capture, and depending on the settings that the camera decides, a good photograph will be produced, here the ISO and other elements to modify would come into play. Another function, before the image is finally saved, is that the post-processing will be applied even if it does not improve the image quality.
All this process to create a photograph brings together the reasons why we have a bad experience with photography on Android. The worst part is for developers as they have to create their own API for features such as HDR or scene modes. The post processed is in itself unfortunate, we can find an example of this in the Xperia Z1, since in this phone, a photo taken in burst mode had higher quality than a normal one, and this was because the post was not applied indicted.
Android 5.0 Lollipop, the big step in photography on Android
We go on to list all the new features that Android 5.0 has Lollipop related to photography so you can see what a before and after can be like. Let's say, if you have an Xperia Z from two years ago, which will receive Lollipop, the increase in the quality of the photographs can be considerable.
- Full resolution burst mode capture at 30fps
- RAW image capture
- Full manual focus
- Faster autofocus
- Improved viewer
- Full resolution video
- Exchange time between modes nonexistent
- Granular controls before capture
- Access to sensor data for RAW
- Flash firing support
- HDR video
All these improvements have already been seen on the Nexus 5, which with Lollipop has seen its photos improved with video capture from what was 1920 × 1080 19MB / s to what is 3264 × 2448 with 65Mb / s, 30fps burst mode, improved viewfinder, manual focus and RAW image capture.
Take photos like never before with Android 5.0
In conclusion the new API for the camera in Android 5.0 is amazing. The benefits go through better photos, better videos, more features, better apps, personalized post-processing for apps and in general the experience of taking a picture is greatly improved.
What will remain is to wait for most third-party camera apps such as those of the manufacturers use this new API wisely to make photos better and your camera sensors work properly as they should always have.
A new version Android 5.0 Lollipop that will mark a before and after in certain important aspects of Android and to which there is less and less for it to arrive after knowing how the largest manufacturers have been announcing their departure to their terminals.