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This is very simple, buy probably overlooked. I'm thinking it's similar to the HTC Sensation's "instant capture" feature.
Use the volume or search button to take a photo with the default camera app (enable option in camera>menu>advanced options). It pretty much skips the focusing part and the picture is taken instantaneously.. Pretty good quality too, even without the focus.
Useful tip - Thanks!
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i am wondering if there is any way possible to create shortcut of an app, that will trigger the app with specific settings ...
An example: i would like to create different shortcuts for the Camera - one that will start the camera with resolution 640x480px, an other one in full definition, and a third one that will start the camera in video mode ...
If this is possible (not only for camera), it could be very helpful, as sometimes, for example of camera, while one takes out the phone, launches the camera, sets the settings needed - the situation he wanted to shot is gone ...
Any idea?
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Open Camera is an Open Source camera app for Android that I've been working on.
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera
Or install APK directly from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencamera/files/
Open Camera is also available on F-Droid.
Homepage: http://opencamera.org.uk/
Code: https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code/
Features include:
- Option to auto-level using accelerometer so pictures are perfectly level.
- All the usual options like zoom, flash, focus modes (including a "manual" mode to only focus on touch), focus/metering areas, exposure lock, scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure compensation, video recording.
- Options for timer and auto-repeated photo taking.
- Configurable volume keys (take picture, zoom, or change exposure compensation).
- Optional geotagging, including compass direction (GPSImgDirection, GPSImgDirectionRef).
- Option to optimise UI for left and right-handed users.
v1.47.3:
Auto-level feature (from v1.48):
I want to make Open Camera better, so bug reports and feature suggestions are most welcome (either email mark dot harman dot apps at gmail dot com, PM, at https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/discussion/ , or leaving a comment here).
Also a request for help: one of the challenges I've had is the wide variety of different cameras or camera drivers on different devices, and sometimes bugs happen that I can't reproduce on my devices. In particular I've had various reports of problems on Cyanogenmod. If any Android developers out there are willing to help out with investigating issues on any devices/platforms you encounter problems with, this will help Open Camera become a better camera app and I would greatly appreciate it Or simply sending me a logcat may help.
I have tried this before. It's an excellent app that takes great pictures.
I'm already using snap camera so have no need for it, but it is better than pretty much all the other apps in terms of picture quality except for a couple.
Im not too big on comparing the quality of vids and pics between camera apps, to my experience its usually around the same. However, what matters is functionality and I must say this app is really nice. Buttons with quick access to the functions, etc. Especially "exposure lock" i like!
However, it seriously falls behind on the visual part. I know that in a sense it doesn't matter but it's always a nice way to finish off a good app.
May I suggest something in style with the Samsung S5 camera app? (http://i.imgur.com/iy5w369.jpg)
Functions on the left side for easy access with left hand and then shutter button + video/photo mode button on the right.
Another little thing, how about a seperate shortcut for videomode ?
I'd suggest a feature that I only saw in snap camera and Moto X camera.
the touch to capture.
instead of only focusing on touch, focus and take the picture
Thanks for the comments, some great suggestions.
* I like the icons being along the top myself, but I'll add an option to have them go down the side for people who prefer that.
* An option for touch to capture sounds a good idea too.
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Another little thing, how about a seperate shortcut for videomode ?
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Can I clarify what you mean by this - there's an icon to switch between photo and video, or do you mean to change video resolution? Or something else?
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Can I clarify what you mean by this - there's an icon to switch between photo and video, or do you mean to change video resolution? Or something else?
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Yeah, sorry, I was being unclear. I just mean in the launcher. A camera shortcut and a video shortcut.
Kocayine said:
Yeah, sorry, I was being unclear. I just mean in the launcher. A camera shortcut and a video shortcut.
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That makes sense - have added it to the TODO.
Hi,
I just installing your camera and my first impression is :good:. It can detect wide resolution for my camera (16:9) where other competitor can't . For now I found bug related to save folder location, each time I open this setting app always tell path not found until I take one photo. Maybe because folder don't exists then app throw an error.
Anyway I didn't explore much this app but here some suggestion:
quick button to change resolution settings
quick button to change camera mode
Maybe HDR mode either software or hardware
Other suggestion will be added later :good:
hadi_rena said:
For now I found bug related to save folder location, each time I open this setting app always tell path not found until I take one photo. Maybe because folder don't exists then app throw an error.
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Oops yes, that's a bug in the new file chooser, I'll get a fix out for that.
I want to have more accessibility to other options, though need to think about how to do this (more icons means more clutter / running out of space) - possibly having a fully customised GUI, or a swipe down for more options, or other ideas are welcome.
Hardware HDR should be supported if it's offered as a scene mode by the device; doing it in software is something I may do in future.
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Oops yes, that's a bug in the new file chooser, I'll get a fix out for that.
I want to have more accessibility to other options, though need to think about how to do this (more icons means more clutter / running out of space) - possibly having a fully customised GUI, or a swipe down for more options, or other ideas are welcome.
Hardware HDR should be supported if it's offered as a scene mode by the device; doing it in software is something I may do in future.
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I vote for swipe gesture to open more options. We can have 4 directions for swiping
Thanks for pointing out HDR mode in scene settings
Half-press to focus of the hardware button continuously triggers focus, which doesn't steadily lock.
Xperia S with 4.4 aosp.
very nice app.ty for alternate download link from playstore.(we dont all use gapps).
peace
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Really loving all the app so far, here's a few ideas/suggestions
Double tap anywhere/press and hold to auto focus + take picture (this is by far the feature i miss the most from my windows phone life, maybe im not the only one)
Option to mute annoying sounds
more and more obvious GUI feedback (like for when switching from picture<>video)
circle inside the glass square doesn't look that well imhO the start recording/take picture should lose that visible square
angle line looks like an odd part of 3x3 grid (maybe its supose to be like that? i dunno, i know zero of pro-photo taking)
as a side note, at least on my device, the zoom scale looks inverted (at 0x bar it's blue, at 4x it's invisible)
i must say i really really love the option to controle the exposure from the volume menu, great idea
great work!
mdwh said:
Oops yes, that's a bug in the new file chooser, I'll get a fix out for that.
I want to have more accessibility to other options, though need to think about how to do this (more icons means more clutter / running out of space) - possibly having a fully customised GUI, or a swipe down for more options, or other ideas are welcome.
Hardware HDR should be supported if it's offered as a scene mode by the device; doing it in software is something I may do in future.
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Hello, been using this for a few months, its one of the better camera apps, but could do with a few improvements (sorry to sound negative, I do like it!)
I d like:
An ISO shortcut, or option to add it, so you dont have to delve into the menus
Touch to focus and take a picture all in one, like Snap camera (already been suggested twice, so this seems the most popular request so far !)
Option to remove zoom slider - hardly any phone camera has optical zoom and digital zoom is 100% useless so I dont want it cluttering up the screen.
On my find 5 the camera button (the one you hit to take a shot) is surrounded by a square and it looks awful, so an option to change the style of this button would be nice (circle, square, pic of a camera, red, blue, white etc. I notice the screen shot in the first post there is no square though ?
How about a maximum no of icons you can have on the screen based on the size of the device, then user can choose what icons to have up to the maximum that can fit, so the amount of clutter is down to the user and the number of icons down to whats physically possible ?
I do like this app, but it is slow to take pictures, especially when stabilised, Snap camera isnt this slow whether youre using the stabilise feature or not, would be nice if it was quicker.
Was using the app with CM and did have some problems, using OmniROM now and dont seem to have them. Used to use Snap mostly, but that seems to have bugs on both CM and Omni, would like to remove it and 100% replace it with this.
A question about the "auto-stabilise."
Stabilization (as in Optical Image Stabilization, or OIS) generally refers to a camera shake reducing feature. Is that what this does? Your description sounds more like auto-leveling than the traditional meaning of stabilization.
I honestly have only one issue with this camera, it's damn ugly. Other than that it works beautifully on my S3 running CM11. You are using standard controls, so themes kinda mess with your work. I would suggest spending some time on a look and feel that would make your app look more modern.
What about porting it for gingerbread? (2.3+)
I really like this! I have an older armv6 version of focal but UI is very difficult to navigate. This one fills the bill.
UI suggestions:
*Universal choice of <-|+> or slider. Really do not need both visible. Do not take space for both or unselected alternative. It is those sliders that make the iPhone camera a joy to use.
*Place all those potentially per-picture options up front rather than in properties (or set their defaults in properties): ASA, white-balance, color-effect, et al. Done this way on focal and cm11s camera.
*Focus region is settable on cm11s camera (in properties but would rather see up front as well).
*Option for powerbutton capture (focus and shoot).
*Option for normal camera-icon capture (focus and shoot). Previously requested here. I am kind of confused as to what is going on right now and can be surprised to see "taking picture."
*Generally, unclutter everything which is going on the screen on top of the view. Do not need all those numbers and boxes except where directly functional such as focus region.
Might be interesting and make for quicker shoots: continuous auto focus--more likely picture is ready when I press the button. I do not think anybody is doing this at present (but nobody else is fudging angles and such either!).
Thanks for this great job, could you include the exposure time regulation? ideally to photograph lightnings.
Best regards
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Cool app from what I've seen in two minutes of tinkering or so.
I was wondering if it'd be possible to set 60 and 50 Hz anti-flickering from the app? I'm travelling in a 50Hz power region and some museum lighting gave me weird banding effects that I suspect was caused by this.
I just recently bought Xperia XZ and I'm very disappointed to see that the "Full Manual Controls" in the camera UI and Camera2 API are actually pretty limited. Manual settings, such as "Saturation", "Contrast", "Sharpness", available since a long long time in Samsung and HTC devices, are absolutely unavailable and inaccessible here, neither in the default camera UI, nor in third-party applications, such as FreeDCam, Camera FV-5 and so on. For example, if you check this video, showing the capabilities of the FreeDCam application - youtube.com/watch?v =PWg0KaXbv5I (I can not post links yet, so you have to remove the spaces) , you can see how many settings at the bottom of the screen can be manually adjusted. But when I installed this application on my Xperia XZ, I got only "Manual focus", "ISO", "Manual exposure time", "Exposure compensation" and "Zoom". All other settings are missing. I read some time ago that Sony finally enabled the full manual settings, but from what I see quite a lot of settings are missing... Is there any way to enable them, maybe by rooting the device or I don't know, but I need them, otherwise I'll have to sell the phone and look for other options...
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I just recently bought Xperia XZ and I'm very disappointed to see that the "Full Manual Controls" in the camera UI and Camera2 API are actually pretty limited. Manual settings, such as "Saturation", "Contrast", "Sharpness", available since a long long time in Samsung and HTC devices, are absolutely unavailable and inaccessible here, neither in the default camera UI, nor in third-party applications, such as FreeDCam, Camera FV-5 and so on. For example, if you check this video, showing the capabilities of the FreeDCam application - youtube.com/watch?v =PWg0KaXbv5I (I can not post links yet, so you have to remove the spaces) , you can see how many settings at the bottom of the screen can be manually adjusted. But when I installed this application on my Xperia XZ, I got only "Manual focus", "ISO", "Manual exposure time", "Exposure compensation" and "Zoom". All other settings are missing. I read some time ago that Sony finally enabled the full manual settings, but from what I see quite a lot of settings are missing... Is there any way to enable them, maybe by rooting the device or I don't know, but I need them, otherwise I'll have to sell the phone and look for other options...
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Most likely it's an app limitation. Just like when I tried to install Camera FV-5 and Manual Camera apps for lower shutter speed but unfortunately they only provide 1/10 SS while the stock camera has 1 second.
ermond012 said:
Most likely it's an app limitation. Just like when I tried to install Camera FV-5 and Manual Camera apps for lower shutter speed but unfortunately they only provide 1/10 SS while the stock camera has 1 second.
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That one as well, I forgot about that one, as well as the ISO limited only up to 800, and many others, all these limitations are set by Sony to their Camera2 API so that no third-party apps can use the full potential of that sensor, which is a shame. Clear evidence is that when you install the same application, even from the same apk file, on other phones, such as Samsung or HTC, these additional manual contrrol options are present, they are missing only on Xperia phones...
The reason why I need these settings is because of the camera's very poor performance with the default camera app, mostly because of the dull and poor colors, and I want to compensate that by boosting the saturation and the contrast. Even my trustworthy 5 years old Xperia Pro takes much better photos - with less noise and better colors... I'm very disappointed with Xperia XZ's camera...
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I just recently bought Xperia XZ and I'm very disappointed to see that the "Full Manual Controls" in the camera UI and Camera2 API are actually pretty limited. Manual settings, such as "Saturation", "Contrast", "Sharpness", available since a long long time in Samsung and HTC devices, are absolutely unavailable and inaccessible here, neither in the default camera UI, nor in third-party applications, such as FreeDCam, Camera FV-5 and so on. For example, if you check this video, showing the capabilities of the FreeDCam application - youtube.com/watch?v =PWg0KaXbv5I (I can not post links yet, so you have to remove the spaces) , you can see how many settings at the bottom of the screen can be manually adjusted. But when I installed this application on my Xperia XZ, I got only "Manual focus", "ISO", "Manual exposure time", "Exposure compensation" and "Zoom". All other settings are missing. I read some time ago that Sony finally enabled the full manual settings, but from what I see quite a lot of settings are missing... Is there any way to enable them, maybe by rooting the device or I don't know, but I need them, otherwise I'll have to sell the phone and look for other options...
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Try switching to camera 1 api in freedcam
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defcomg said:
Try switching to camera 1 api in freedcam
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I made two screenshots with my Xperia XZ, the first one with Camera1 API, the second one with Camera2 API, and the third screenshot, which I took from this site - en.miui.com/thread-269521-1-1.html , shows the UI of the application as seen on Samsung, HTC, MIUI and other brands or ROMs (basically the default manual controls, provided by stock Camera2 API in stock Android). Clearly the ones from the Xperia miss quite a lot of manual options...
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I made two screenshots with my Xperia XZ, the first one with Camera1 API, the second one with Camera2 API, and the third screenshot, which I took from this site - en.miui.com/thread-269521-1-1.html , shows the UI of the application as seen on Samsung, HTC, MIUI and other brands or ROMs (basically the default manual controls, provided by stock Camera2 API in stock Android). Clearly the ones from the Xperia miss quite a lot of manual options...
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try save camera parameters from camera 1 Settings > Save camera parameters you should find txt file in dcim/freedcam
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try save camera parameters from camera 1 Settings > Save camera parameters you should find txt file in dcim/freedcam
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F8331_CameraParameters.txt is created with camera1 -> Settings > Save camera parameters (for some reasons I can't find "Save camera parameters" when using camera2);
log1.txt is created with Camera FV-5 with camera2 set;
log2.txt is created with Manual Camera Compatibility application.
Maybe someone should provide such logs from other phones so that we can compare them.
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F8331_CameraParameters.txt is created with camera1 -> Settings > Save camera parameters (for some reasons I can't find "Save camera parameters" when using camera2);
log1.txt is created with Camera FV-5 with camera2 set;
log2.txt is created with Manual Camera Compatibility application.
Maybe someone should provide such logs from other phones so that we can compare them.
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i see the params its because the device is using sony camera hal and not qualcomms thats why the parameters in camera 2 you maybe able to control sharpness via edge mode and contrast via tone curve .
dunno if you have raw option in camera2 if you tap on jpeg to the left of ui there should be raw10 or raw_sensor if there is neither the best you can hope for is for an aosp rom with qualcomm framework on know the z5c had full qualcomm hal so it had all the options available including raw
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i see the params its because the device is using sony camera hal and not qualcomms thats why the parameters in camera 2 you maybe able to control sharpness via edge mode and contrast via tone curve .
dunno if you have raw option in camera2 if you tap on jpeg to the left of ui there should be raw10 or raw_sensor if there is neither the best you can hope for is for an aosp rom with qualcomm framework on know the z5c had full qualcomm hal so it had all the options available including raw
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It is known issue that the Xperia XZ (as well as all Xperias so far, not sure whether Z5 makes exception) have no RAW capture, so the jpeg option on the left of the UI has only option at all - jpeg and that's it But I'm very disappointed to hear that previous generations Xperias had more manual controls than the latest ones, that's really a shame
Not sure where to start this thread, this is more of a dev question.
I've decompiled the S7 camera app and taken a look at the source code. In case you haven't done this, the rundown is this: there is a main camera app with pluggable modules. Most of the downloadable camera add-ons are already implemented inside the stock app. For example, "Sports" is just a really basic camera, probably to make focusing and capturing pictures as quick as possible. By downloading an addon you are essentially adding an icon in the camera modes.
I mainly want to achieve two things: 1) lower the sharpness from 0 to -1 and 2) create a mode where the shutter time does not go above 1/30 or so.
1) There are a few generic Android camera properties that control that, is there a way to add them to some properties file? The keys: sharpness, sharpness-max, sharpness-min
2) Is there a way to inject my own method inside some class from the camera app? For example there is a method inside the "Pro" mode that does exposure calculation, I think I implement some stuff there.
Obviously, both features can be added with a bit [more] of coding, but it's not without pain. For example some icons would need to be created, handle resizing and different resolutions, handling device rotation, etc.
Other things that can be done by taking control of the camera app: add RAW in any mode, control OIS and video stabilisation, anti-fog mode (?), finer control over focusing modes and speeds, HDR, low-light detection. Hopefully this sparks someone's interest.
Just as an update, to underline the fact that it's doable: http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-look-inside-samsung-s7-camera.html
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Just as an update, to underline the fact that it's doable: http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-look-inside-samsung-s7-camera.html
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Nevermind then lol.
Thank you for the reply, but not sure whether to read it as information or advert.
Consider me interested.
Did you achieve this ?! I am trying to compile the code in android studio but there are alot of errors. Even when i have managed to compile it, when i install it on my Note 8 there is nothing. Any working source code ?!
"add RAW in any mode, control OIS and video stabilisation, anti-fog mode (?), finer control over focusing modes and speeds, HDR, low-light detection." isn't that on some other app that we can port it from? (in my head that would be less coding)
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Consider me interested.
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+1 this can be a great mod
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When i installed through app I am getting this error that "camera failed" and unable to attach here and I am using TGP rom
I created an app duovision camera. You can try the dual camera feature. It may not work on some devices. Cheers
Hi Agonsh.
I have a galaxy S6 which the dual camera app from samsung works on but your duovision does not. Did you make it from decompiling S8 onwards for it to work?
Yes i did with using the newest Semcamera jar library which has an integrated dualcamera feature. And i know that it does not work on older versions.
Thanks Agonsh, appreciated. Cheers.
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Yes i did with using the newest Semcamera jar library which has an integrated dualcamera feature. And i know that it does not work on older versions.
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Pardon my ignorance and sorry to bother. New to XDA. Is the latest semcamera jar library available for download here or somewhere else?