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Former Snap employee here (albeit 3 years ago). They care a lot about their camera, particularly speed. They do, in fact, use the "proper" camera APIs on the de
by greysonp 5y ago
Former Snap employee here (albeit 3 years ago). They care a lot about their camera, particularly speed. They do, in fact, use the "proper" camera APIs on the devices where it's fast enough, and they'll hide the latency by using a screenshot first and then subbing in the higher quality image later. But at the time this was only done for whitelisted devices that could do this operation fast enough. A lot of devices have very slow cameras.
You might disagree with how they weigh speed vs quality, but I assure you they take it very seriously.
- speedgoose 5y agoThanks for the explanation. My Huawei had the best camera of the market when it was released, but it is obviously not whitelisted. I guess it's difficult to test a Huawei in USA.
- whynotminot 5y agoWhat does “best camera” mean though? Sounds like the poster is talking more about latency and speed than quality, which may be more about the CPU/OS optimization than the camera image quality.
- thebean11 5y agoJust out of curiosity is the whitelist public?
- MonaroVXR 5y agoWhat do you mean with slow camera's? The people I hear the most, are people with high-end phones complaining about this. So that means, that high-end phones aren't that fast after all? (Because what is high-end actually? Price, performance, both?) Maybe latency, opening the camera? Or getting image itself?