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Full camera res in third party apps?

ppiixx — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 06:22:22 GMT

How do I use the full camera resolution in non-sony apps?

They all list the max resolution as 8mp instead of 23

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

ashishsingh007 — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:30:28 GMT

Is it? Have you tried setting? Or tried google camera as well?

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

ppiixx — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:32:33 GMT

Ive tried several apps including 'manual camera' and google camera and generic phone info apps.

They all list the max res as 8MP

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

ratacit — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 23:28:44 GMT

Camera FV (paid version) allows me full resolution on my Z3

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

ppiixx — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 06:04:50 GMT

It doesn't on the z5!

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

komilAD — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 06:24:47 GMT

@ppiixx

I think you need to ask the app developer to include this option.

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

ppiixx — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:20:02 GMT

I have to ask every third-party app developer to support the resolution of the camera?

The phone is reporting the resolution to apps as only 8MP. It looks like the sony camera app is using a undocumented private api to acces the full resolution.

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

Uliwooly — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:57:30 GMT

@ppiixx

Yes you have to contact the app/camera developer.

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

bubimir13 — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 23:48:01 GMT

Wrong, several app devs have confirmed on various sites (google playstore review answers, reddit, forums, etc.) that the issue with using full resoulution in 3rd party apps is on Sony's end. They have tried to bypass it but no way to increase or add more then 8mpx choices.

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

Uliwooly — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 01:57:58 GMT

@bubimir13

Could you add source links to this so it can be escalated?

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

bubimir13 — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:50:27 GMT

I cant remember now, but i have seen it somewhere on reddit in proshot app conversations and on reviews of that app on Play Store.

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

Uliwooly — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 02:31:20 GMT

@bubimir13

Look for them, let me know and I'll escalate it, in the mean time check this out

http://www.xperiablog.net/2015/11/18/sony-opens-camera-for-xperia-aosp/

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

bubimir13 — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:43:17 GMT

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3q9zcg/whats_everyones_recommendations_for_a_manual/cwm5aui?context=3

Heres a convo with Z5 mentions in a 3rd party app which is not working properly with camera2 API unlike many other devices.

And the AOSP camera has the crippled HALs, it'll take months for devs to develop something usefull...

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

Uliwooly — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:01:01 GMT

@bubimir13

That's a conversation is between users not camera app developers, get camera developers take on this issue.

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

bubimir13 — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:11:36 GMT

RiseUpGames is a guy that develops this app, and the other guy is independent developer not connected to app but is interested in it.

EDIT: And since when are regular users less worthy then developers? People buy the phones as well as devs do, paying the same or even higher prices and use phones on regular base.

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

Uliwooly — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:24:28 GMT

@bubimir13

I don't understand why you are antagonizing me nor why you are taking me out of context. This is what you said

@bubimir13 wrote:

Wrong, several app devs have confirmed on various sites (google playstore review answers, reddit, forums, etc.) that the issue with using full resoulution in 3rd party apps is on Sony's end. They have tried to bypass it but no way to increase or add more then 8mpx choices.

@bubimir13 wrote:

RiseUpGames is a guy that develops this app, and the other guy is independent developer not connected to app but is interested in it.

EDIT: And since when are regular users less worthy then developers? People buy the phones as well as devs do, paying the same or even higher prices and use phones on regular base.

Hence, I'm requesting you to post this information, since your claim its from camera app developers, it has nothing to do with who is more important at all, so do share those posts from Camera app developers, thank you.

On a side note, I've escalated this, but it'll make sense if you can provide camera developer users with their specific issues and statements.

Re: Full camera res in third party apps?

bubimir13 — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:43:02 GMT

Im sorry if you feel antagonized, it was not my intention, but you did said that on link i posted ''That's a conversation is between users not camera app developers'' and it wasn't the truth, as i wouldn't post it knowingly it has nothing to do with devs.

I cannot remember all the places, wheter on reddit or XDA or any other forum, on 3 languages i speak, i saw the devs explaining to users why their 3rd party apps cannot get more then 8mpx 16:9 resolution, as well as why some camera2 API features don't work and they should have by compatibility checks. Its all puzzeling, but hopefully it'll all be taken care of with latter updates.

Therefore it is hard to provide every single one devs answer, so i reached for the one i remember where it was and with who it was, and in this case, RiseUpGames is an honest dev of one of the best 3rd party camera app, if he said its a dead end then i do believe him.

However, recent AOSP HAL publishing will spark the development community to strive fixing the errors and upgrading the user expirience in a manner OEM cannot do.

Sony Xperia Z5 Premium - Photos limited to 8MP in non-sony camera apps please allow 23MP photos !

GJS — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 01:03:21 GMT

Please update OS / firmware to allow Android third party camera apps to take 23MP photos !

It is ludricious to spend $1000+ on Sony Xperia Z5 Premium and not be able to capture 23MP photos in other camera apps !

This was not the case with Zperia Z2 where Android 3rd party camera apps can capture 21MP photos !

Please fix asap.

Thanks

E/Camera2-Parameters( 583): set: Requested picture size 5520 x 4140 is not supported
W/Preview setCameraParameters() Exception(20700): java.lang.RuntimeException: setParameters failed

picture-size=3840x2160;

picture-size-values=3840x2160,2048x1536,1920x1080,1280x720,720x480,640x480,352x288,320x240,176x144;

Re: Sony Xperia Z5 Premium - Photos limited to 8MP in non-sony camera apps please allow 23MP photos

Rickard — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:28:26 GMT

I'm afraid i don't know if this is supported or not but i will forward the feedback.

I would however recommend that the developer of the camera app contacts our developer support in this case.

Re: Sony Xperia Z5 Premium - Photos limited to 8MP in non-sony camera apps please allow 23MP photos

ppiixx — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:38:26 GMT

Android has standard APIs for obtaining the list of resolutions that a camera supports. On the Z5 this api is only returning resolutions upto 8megapixels.

If sony are suggesting that developers need to use a private API and not the standard android camera APIs then it is their responsibility to publish that information. Or they should make it clear that their camera only supports the full resolution in their app.

I don't think any of the previous xperia phones had this limitation so hopefully it isnt intentional.