Instagram for Android is taking advantage of Android’s Camera Extensions API to power a “Night Mode” on the latest Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones. This Camera Extensions API allows Android ...

Android 16 will be set to add a new “Night Mode Indicator API” that will essentially help your camera and social apps recognize low-light situations. Depending on your current phone, chances are the ...

Developers of mixed reality games have been clamoring for passthrough camera access on Quest for a while now, something now-departed Meta VP of XR Mark Rabkin said would come with the release of a new ...

I've been writing about Android since 2011, with a focus on device reviews, Samsung and Google Pixel hardware, and the latest happenings in the ecosystem. In my entire writing career, I've reviewed ...

Android 17 adds Vendor-Defined Camera Extensions, allowing apps to use vendor camera features like HDR and Super Resolution. The standardized API lets developers tap phone-specific processing for ...

At its I/O 2024 developers’ conference in May, Google announced plans to support Ultra HDR image capture across all third-party apps with built-in camera functionality. It appears the company has made ...

Google is updating the Jetpack CameraX library to support capturing Ultra HDR images. Ultra HDR is a new image format introduced in Android 14 that enables saving the SDR and HDR version of an image ...

Android 16 Beta 2 is now available for Pixel phones. The update brings support for camera enhancements like hybrid auto-exposure, precise color temperature adjustments, and tint adjustments. It also ...