The best Android phones are because, among other features, they boast a large camera on the back. It is not as perfect as the professional SLR cameras but there is no doubt that its hardware has evolved enough to begin to approach them. Of course, as the famous slogan says, “uncontrolled power is useless” and in this case, if the lenses and sensors of our mobiles are not accompanied by up-to-date software, they are of little use.
Almost all phone manufacturers include a really good camera app on their devices, but there are some apps on the Google Play Store that can take your photography experience to the next level. And this is where Android 12 comes in, improving what we will be able to do with both the mobile camera and third-party apps, facilitating the harmony between both “agents”.
The key is in the Camera2 API
The great novelty of Android 12 with respect to the photographic component of our mobile is in the shadows, not in Google Camera‘s own pp that currently independently of the update of the Google operating system. The Camera2 API allows an application developer to connect and use our phone’s camera without writing any specialized code to control or interact with it. This means that applications like Instagram incorporate this code and the application works on all devices with a camera.
It says ose another way. Have you noticed that when launching the camera from WhatsApp, Facebook or another app, the result is not the same as with the smartphone camera app? Well, thanks to the new aAPI, all the captures would enjoy the same quality, regardless of the app they are made.
Android 12 allows apps like the ones mentioned to not only continue to have an easy way to access the camera , but it also adds methods to use the specialized features that phone manufacturers love to include, such as high resolution captures, filters beauty, bokeh functions, HDR and night modes. Additionally, a developer can take advantage of any automatic mode where the appropriate function is chosen based on conditions.
Of course, Google advises the developers of these apps that they should check the device and see if a particular function is exposed for third-party applications because “device-specific extensions can support only a subset of the tools and output resolutions of the camera “ .
Source> Google
