At Google I/O, Google announced there was 5,000 new APIs.
Thankfully, one of those was the camera API. This will mean a more pure performance with better synchronization between the physical camera and the software.
New devices will be able to capture better images as well as 30 FPS videos at full resolution. The Nexus 5 on Android L, can capture at 30 FPS, 8 megapixel video, which is a big improvement over what it could do on previous versions of Android.
Not only will there be deep down software improvements, but new options, for burst mode, HDR+, and fine tuned controls ( like ISO sensitivity and exposure time) that will be added to Android’s camera interface.
With these improvements in the code, we might finally see android smartphones take on the like of the Nokia Lumia and iPhone when it comes to taking good quality photos.
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Gavin, when you mention exposure time do you mean shutter speed or is it exposure compensation.
I’m banking on it being shutter speed so we can kill the 1 second limitation that Android has had in place since day one.
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Exposure at the moment. But now there is no layer between the hardware and software, I would hope we will start to see the shutter limitation being removed by other apps.
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