I was curious, as I wasnt sure if it available or not, whether there existed an app for our phones, that could replicate what the leap motion does for our PC's? Basically is there any application for our phones to use the proximity sensor or something of that matter so that when you wave your hand over your phone, maybe it will scroll down or move to the next page. I understand it probably wont understand depth, but at least the simple motions could be recorded and translated into actions on the pc.
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My pet peeve on HD is the camera auto focus. It's nothing to write home about, but OK for a phone, to my taste. The major problem with it is the autofocus which takes forever to work. Since it's difficult (for me) to hold the device steadily for such a long time, my guess is that a "focus free" mode (setting focus to infinity IINM) would make things way better for most uses. At least it work well on my Asus P750.
Does anyone know if it's possible on HD?
This is an interesting question. I havn't got my HD yet, but I can imagine, one of the things which stops this handset being used for quick snaps, is the auto focus.... I'd be intruiged to hear suggestions on this.
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Problem is these camera units often have to be wide open apertures, to compensate for the tiny sensors. If it was F8 or something most stuff would be in focus all the time, but pictures in anything but bright sun would be just a huge blur because of the long shutter time needed.
Basically, camera phones will always be useless, regardless of how many megapixels they shoehorn in there.
Well, I can live with blur, actually. As long as there's something in the picture. But this 3 second long focusing just doesn't allow me to capture anything!
I don't want to live with blur at all, no point if there IS someone in the picture but they look like tom welling in smallville using super speed
vangrieg said:
Well, I can live with blur, actually. As long as there's something in the picture. But this 3 second long focusing just doesn't allow me to capture anything!
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Check the user manual. It might me a user defined setting let you change the duration taken to say 1 second?
Disclaimer 1: I'm not a developer.
Disclaimer 2: I searched and didn't find a similar app
In searching for applications to improve the results from my wife's iPhone camera, I came across a few iPhone apps that cleverly use the accelerometer to assist in picture taking -- namely they wait until the accelerometer registers the fact that the phone has stopped moving before triggering the shutter.
It seems to me that a similar application would work on the Diamond/Touch Pro/HD -- once the "shutter button" has been pressed, the camera autofocuses, and then waits for a "steady" moment to finish taking the picture.
Again, I'm a UI/Tech Specs type of person, so I don't know how open the camera api is. That said, it seems, in theory, that this should work and wouldn't be to tough to do (hell, they managed to do it on the iPhone).
What do you think?
- Matt
Have you really noticed a difference on iPhone with this program?
here you go buddy
this may solve ur problem
http://www.mobiletopsoft.com/pocket-pc/download-kais-photo-bubble-level-net-1-2.html
That's an interesting app, but not quite the same thing. While it's nice that it lets you level the shot, it doesn't look like it uses the accelerometer to trip the shutter. So the hand shake potential is still there.
As far as the Steadycam app, it helps. It isn't going to turn the iPhone into a digital camera replacement, but it does assist low light pictures.
Here's a review of two of the iPhone Apps I've been playing with:
http://www.mophojo.com/2008/12/iphone-app-hold-er-steady/
- Matt
It is a good app if it exists. It is good for someone's hands are not steady when taking photos.
Decrease The Blur of Your Camera (Really):
http://www.fuzemobility.com/decrease-the-blur-of-your-camera-really/
Camera Focus Unwrapped:
http://www.fuzemobility.com/camera-focus-unwrapped/
Hi there. I hope I'm asking this in the right place, but I have an interest in the inner workings of cameras on android, and how an app could control them effectively.
I have noiticed that most, if not all, android cameras have autoexposure hardwired on, and that this hardware autoexposure is significantly more effective than what is user controllable (brightness sliders and the like in camera apps)
For example, if you are sitting in a dark room, with a bright window. Now matter how low you drop the "exposure slider" in an app, the window will never come into the proper exposure range. Yet, if you actually look out the window with the camera, to where the outside world fills the viewport, the camera will automatically drop into the proper exposure range. This is odd to me... So the camera CAN expose down far enough to make the outside not blown out, but I am not able to control this?
The only explanation I can figure is the exposure on cell cameras works in a two step process.
1. Light hits sensor, sensor uses autoexposure to get the right range, all on it's own (we cant control this, or can we?),
2. and then the software gets the stream and we can adjust it slightly inside of the software side.
So I guess my question is... is it possible to edit step 1? Can we manually adjust the full exposure at the sensor level? I find most HDR apps to be very lacking on Android, and I believe this is the cause. The app literally has no access to change the exposure range. It can only adjust in a small range that is exposed to software after the hardware auto-exposure has done it's magic.
I have hope that this may be changeable, thanks only to one software I have seen that can.. kinda... adjust the hardware exposure. An app called Camera FV-5 on the market, if you go outside, get your exposure correctly, you can then choose AE-L for autoexposure lock, and then go inside and look out that same window, and everything will say exposed as low as you locked it.
If this is possible, that at least means we can allow/disallow the hardware auto-exposure. And if this is possible, maybe more control is too.
Thoughts? My goal is to make a camera app that fully controls settings such as these. At their full range. Let me know what you all think!
(Specifically I am on the LG G2, and would like to get hardware level exposure control on this model, but Id love to expand after I see it's possible, if it is)
Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I am new here. if so Mods please move it for me or let me know where it goes! Thanks!
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Hi there. I hope I'm asking this in the right place, but I have an interest in the inner workings of cameras on android, and how an app could control them effectively.
I have noiticed that most, if not all, android cameras have autoexposure hardwired on, and that this hardware autoexposure is significantly more effective than what is user controllable (brightness sliders and the like in camera apps)
For example, if you are sitting in a dark room, with a bright window. Now matter how low you drop the "exposure slider" in an app, the window will never come into the proper exposure range. Yet, if you actually look out the window with the camera, to where the outside world fills the viewport, the camera will automatically drop into the proper exposure range. This is odd to me... So the camera CAN expose down far enough to make the outside not blown out, but I am not able to control this?
The only explanation I can figure is the exposure on cell cameras works in a two step process.
1. Light hits sensor, sensor uses autoexposure to get the right range, all on it's own (we cant control this, or can we?),
2. and then the software gets the stream and we can adjust it slightly inside of the software side.
So I guess my question is... is it possible to edit step 1? Can we manually adjust the full exposure at the sensor level? I find most HDR apps to be very lacking on Android, and I believe this is the cause. The app literally has no access to change the exposure range. It can only adjust in a small range that is exposed to software after the hardware auto-exposure has done it's magic.
I have hope that this may be changeable, thanks only to one software I have seen that can.. kinda... adjust the hardware exposure. An app called Camera FV-5 on the market, if you go outside, get your exposure correctly, you can then choose AE-L for autoexposure lock, and then go inside and look out that same window, and everything will say exposed as low as you locked it.
If this is possible, that at least means we can allow/disallow the hardware auto-exposure. And if this is possible, maybe more control is too.
Thoughts? My goal is to make a camera app that fully controls settings such as these. At their full range. Let me know what you all think!
(Specifically I am on the LG G2, and would like to get hardware level exposure control on this model, but Id love to expand after I see it's possible, if it is)
Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I am new here. if so Mods please move it for me or let me know where it goes! Thanks!
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As I have no idea how the camera is using the light sensor, the only logical advice I would give you is to browse the source code of the standart camera app.. Since Android is open source, I'm sure you can find something that helps you
The other way would be to write a very basic camera app that does not make use of the light sensor, and then see how much exposure is actually done without you knowing.
SimplicityApks said:
As I have no idea how the camera is using the light sensor, the only logical advice I would give you is to browse the source code of the standart camera app.. Since Android is open source, I'm sure you can find something that helps you
The other way would be to write a very basic camera app that does not make use of the light sensor, and then see how much exposure is actually done without you knowing.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll start by looking at CM's camera app.
I just got my Honor 7 and I like it a lot! It's a cool feature that the fingerprint reader supports gestures, but I don't find the preset function very useful. Instead I'd like to use it like a universal scroll both horizontally and vertically. It would be great if it's possible to use it in any app just like swiping the front screen. That way one could scroll through websites etc while seeing the whole screen.
I'm new to android development, so I wonder if it's even possible to achieve? Would it require low level programming or is it accessible through some api? Is it possible to make an app that catches the gestures and transform it to what I want, or would I need to root the phone and hack on a custom rom?
I will probably not have time to implement this, but I'm curious wether or not it's possible. If anyone else is inspired by the challenge, you're welcome to hack along
Did you find anything??
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swipe left and right for skipping music would be a great feature too.
somebody knows if its possible?
Sorry, didn't find anything. I still think it would be a killer feature, but I'm not sure how accurate the sensor is. My guess is that it would be pretty hard to hack it, and it's far out of my league.
if you have a look at your finger sensor menu, you can see, that both directions (up and down) are used for other functionality!
I think it is impossible to use this fingerprint otherwise without getting trouble with it.
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if you have a look at your finger sensor menu, you can see, that both directions (up and down) are used for other functionality!
I think it is impossible to use this fingerprint otherwise without getting trouble with it.
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Actually, both directions are optionally used for other functionality. This is what got me thinking that it might be possible to catch the swipe gestures, but use it for something else. Don't really know where to start though. As you say, it's a big chance to get trouble with it, conflicting the other behavior etc.
So, I have just upgraded myself from G3 to this Beast phone (love it)
Native Galaxy Gallery App there is a Story Mode/ selection that puts together all the pictures you have then in a given day or location and adds background music & some effects but, in doing so it cuts the pictures so you end up with half the face or picture to see.
Are there any settings the I need to change to make the pictures show in full or is there any fix for this.
I tried searching the forums but found nothing. In case I was wrong please direct me to the correct post
I'm finding that I have the same results and can't find any settings to change the way it seems to zoom in on each photo. Really nice idea but poor execution...
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No one else seems to have this issue or care for this feature
or they are too busy rooting/ unlocking the SD version of the phone
Can't say about others, but in my case: 1. easy enough to do it manually just the way I want it 2. it almost never works properly, besides cutting off the frame. Case in point, my phone created album called "at the beach", after we went to the beach. Well, most of the pictures in this album are not from anywhere near the beach and since I have location embedded in every picture and phone already correctly identified I was at the beach including particular field, not sure why it added pictures taken at home and many other locations. Bottom line: useless function personally I don't care about.