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Welcome back to the final part of our blog post series about harnessing the power of CameraX and Compose. In the previous posts, we’ve created a camera preview screen with tap-to-focus and spotlight effect. Now, we will take our viewfinder and expand

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This article is cross-published on Medium This release includes a host of bug fixes, performance improvements and new features. Read on to find out more, and as always please check out the full release notes for a comprehensive overview of changes in

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Android users have demonstrated an increasing desire to create, personalize, and share video content online, whether to preserve their memories or to make people laugh. As such, media editing is a cornerstone of many engaging Android apps, and

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Android offers Camera and Media APIs to help you build apps that can capture, edit, share, and play media. To help you enhance Android Camera and Media experiences to be even more delightful for your users, this week we will be kicking off the Camera

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Android offers Camera and Media APIs to help you build apps that can capture, edit, share, and play media. To help you enhance Android Camera and Media experiences to be even more delightful for your users, this week we will be kicking off the Camera

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Our next episode of #AndroidBuildTime is here, and this time we're talking about Ultra HDR images! Tune in to hear from the team at Google Drive and the Android platform team about new capabilities in Ultra HDR. Link to podcast →

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In this video, Developer Relations Engineer Nevin Mital will start with a quick overview of Jetpack Media3, then we’ll dive specifically into the APIs offered by Transformer, and lastly, Nevin will describe how you could incrementally start including

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Discover the latest developer solutions in the Android media and camera suite to help you maximize users’ entertainment experiences. Explore the latest feature launches for social media apps, Android and device updates, and new API improvements in

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Note: An earlier version of this post listed the changes coming to Compose as being in the \ release. This release will now be in July and we have updated this post accordingly. At Google I/O 2024, we announced the upcoming July ‘24 Jetpack Compose

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With the first Developer Preview of Android 15 now released, another new Android release that brings new features and under-the-hood improvements for billions of users worldwide will be coming shortly. As Android developers, you are key players in

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Our photo picker has always been the gateway to your local media library, providing a secure, date-sorted interface for users to grant apps access to selected images and videos. But now, we're taking it a step further by integrating cloud photos from

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Since we launched Google Cast in 2013, we've been working to bring casting capabilities to more apps and devices. We have come a long way. Now, users can cast to many new devices, like TVs, speakers, smart displays, and even the latest Pixel Tablet.

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Following its release in July of 2023, Meta’s Threads became the most rapidly downloaded app ever with over 100 million downloads in its first week. Meta created the new text-based social media platform as a place to build connections and have

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Today we're releasing Android 14 and pushing the Android 14 source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Android 14 is designed to improve your productivity as developers while enhancing performance, privacy, security, and customization for

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The upcoming stable release of Android 14 is fast approaching. Now is a great time to test your app with this new release’s changes if you haven’t done so already. With Platform Stability, you can even submit apps targeting SDK 34 to the Google Play

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At Google I/O we announced that Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold are joining our Pixel family of devices. With pre-orders ongoing, now is the time to update your applications to work great on these devices! This blog covers two topics: what makes Pixel

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Learn what’s new in Android Camera and how to bring premium capabilities to your users, including Night & HDR capture, optimized zoom, zero shutter lag, CameraX, Extensions API updates, foldable compatibility, and more. Hear how top Android apps

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Maximize the quality of your audio and video experiences on Android. Learn about the latest developments in Android media, including spatial audio, HDR video, HDR images, and Performance Class 14. Next, explore the 1.0 release of the new Jetpack

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The creation of user-generated content is on the rise, and users are looking for more ways to personalize and add uniqueness to their creations. These creations are then shared to a vast network of devices, each with its own capabilities. The Jetpack

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In Android 13 (API level 33), we introduced a new standardized platform architecture for spatial audio, a premium and more engaging sound experience. With spatial audio, your content sounds more realistic to users by making it sound as though they

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In this video, we’ll create an Android Studio project for a simple CameraX app that shows a camera preview and can take a photo. This video focuses on the app setup and requesting the necessary permissions. In the next videos, we’ll finish the app by

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This video explains how to implement Preview and ImageCapture with CameraX’s ProcessCameraProvider class. This video is part of the CameraX Foundations series, so if you have seen the previous videos, follow these links to get started: CameraX

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Today, we’re covering updates on Jetpack Media3, Jetpack Compose 1.4 release, the conclusion of the MAD Skills series on Compose Layouts and

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Today, we’re pleased to announce the full release of the Jetpack Media3 library. After sharing a first look at the library at Android Developer Summit 2021, we published several alpha and beta releases over the past several months to ensure a

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As a developer, you want to leverage camera capabilities in your app, so you decide to adopt the Android Camera Framework. The first use case you want to implement is the Preview use case, which shows the output of the camera sensor on the screen. So

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In this session, we explore new framework innovations to improve quality, improve latency and create innovative experiences with Android Camera. Resources: Camera2 → https://goo.gle/3huT0MQ CameraX → https://goo.gle/3n34sP6 Speaker: Mozart Louis

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Take a dive into HDR video and discuss the process from end-to-end, including video capture, editing, playback, and sharing. Specific topics include the new Media3 Transformer API for editing, displaying graphics on SurfaceView for playback, and any

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In this talk you will learn how to build a high quality Media app on Wear OS. We will first go through the Core User Journeys for media apps to outline what to build; we will then discuss how to ease the development by adopting our newly released

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In this post, we’ll look at three ways CameraX makes developers’ lives easier when it comes to device compatibility. First, we’ll take a peek into our CameraX Test Lab where we test over 150 physical phones every day. Second, we’ll look at Quirks,

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Today we’re pushing the Android 13 source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially releasing the newest version of Android. For developers, Android 13 is focused on our core themes of privacy and security as well as developer

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Today we're launching the Jetpack Core Performance library in alpha. This library enables you to easily understand what a device is capable of, and tailor your user experience accordingly. It does this by allowing you to obtain the device’s

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Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Today, we're covering updates on Paging, Gradle, AndroidX, Media3, Emoji2, CameraX, App Startup, Accessibility, WearOS, and more! 0:00 -

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Introducing Jetpack Media3 Today, we're launching the first alpha of Jetpack Media3. It's a collection of support libraries for media playback, including ExoPlayer. This article will explain why we created Media3, what it contains, and how it can

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Introduction to Week 10 of 11 Weeks of Android: Games and Media. Resources: Check out the 11 Weeks of Android website → https://goo.gle/30FDT8S Games on d.android.com → https://goo.gle/3aoKo2X Related Playlists: Games & Media - 11 Weeks of

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Shifty Jelly is an Adelaide based mobile development company that has seen great success building Pocket Casts, a premium podcast manager app. The team has focused heavily on building a best-in-class user experience and on Android they offer a

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Discover how the redesigned and simplified EyeEm Android app not only delivers a faster, more photo centric experience, but has also boosted user engagement and retention. For example, missions — competitions for photographers around a theme —