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Camera plugin not returning all cameras
PaulH
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On a new phone, a Samsung Galaxy S25+, Camera.availableDevices() returns a table of 3 cameras with these descriptions:
"Builtin back camera #0"
"Builtin front camera #1"
"Builtin front camera #2"
The phone actually has 3 back cameras and only 1 front camera. Accessing the first camera uses the default back camera, the middle one, which the phone uses for zoom levels from 1.0 to 2.99. Accessing the second via Gideros uses the front camera at a relatively wide angle, like you’d use for group selfies, and the third uses the front camera at a narrow angle.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to access the other two back cameras. There’s a super wide angle lens that the phone uses for zooms from 0.6 to 0.99, and a telephoto lens that the phone uses for zooms of 3.0 or more.
I’m guessing the operating system is returning a set of nomimal cameras, including only one back camera, but that it will switch between the physical cameras based on the desired zoom. If that’s what’s going on, would it be possible to add a setZoom() method to get the OS to use the other cameras? Or could there be some way to access the others?
"Builtin back camera #0"
"Builtin front camera #1"
"Builtin front camera #2"
The phone actually has 3 back cameras and only 1 front camera. Accessing the first camera uses the default back camera, the middle one, which the phone uses for zoom levels from 1.0 to 2.99. Accessing the second via Gideros uses the front camera at a relatively wide angle, like you’d use for group selfies, and the third uses the front camera at a narrow angle.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to access the other two back cameras. There’s a super wide angle lens that the phone uses for zooms from 0.6 to 0.99, and a telephoto lens that the phone uses for zooms of 3.0 or more.
I’m guessing the operating system is returning a set of nomimal cameras, including only one back camera, but that it will switch between the physical cameras based on the desired zoom. If that’s what’s going on, would it be possible to add a setZoom() method to get the OS to use the other cameras? Or could there be some way to access the others?
Comments
Maybe new devices are not compatible with deprecated Camera Class
One would have to revisit Gideros Camera plugin
Likes: PaulH
https://developer.android.com/media/camera/camerax/camera1-to-camerax
https://developer.android.com/codelabs/camerax-getting-started#0