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>Google should crack down more on apps. Crack down on what? You seem to seriously misunderstand the situation. There are two options for an app to take a pho
by daveoc64 4y ago
>Google should crack down more on apps.
Crack down on what?
You seem to seriously misunderstand the situation.
There are two options for an app to take a photo:
1) Using the Camera Intent
2) A custom-designed UI that uses the Camera/Camera2/CameraX APIs
There is no one valid option - both are appropriate to use in different cases, and each has upsides and downsides.
It's generally going to be the case that both developers and users will see option #2 as the better experience - despite what you might think.
- oblio 4y agoI bought a Samsung smartphone. The smartphone has a bunch of cameras. They can zoom to different levels. They can use AI to do stuff like auto-detect documents and turn on a very smart document scanning mode. Then I open up Telegram or WhatsApp and I'm greeted with a barebones camera app that can't really even zoom. How is that a good user experience?!? In what world?
- rickdeckard 4y ago> How is that a good user experience?!? In what world? In the world of Telegram and WhatsApp, where the own vision and strategy of their camera user experience are valued higher than handing off the task of image-taking to the default camera application. Really, the decision is in the hands of the App developer, the Android platform is offering both paths. The idea is that CameraX combines a bit of both worlds, with vendors like Samsung integrating features there and App-Developers using this toolbox instead of directly calling the API of the camera hardware.