One of the most popular features introduced Monday with Android 4.2 was a revamped camera/gallery app (that we got a peek at early). The camera introduces a new focus/settings UI (popping up with an "options ring" only when you need it), a refreshed gallery interface, and of course – Photo Sphere.
Photo Sphere, for those who missed it, allows users to capture 360° images of their surroundings a la Google Maps, using XML data in concert with an enormous JPG file to help you save an immersive photo experience of where you've been.
The interface, which is activated from the camera app, is an ethereal grid plane that will guide you with helpful blue dots to each frame needed for a full sphere. Besides viewing your spherical creations on your handset, you can upload the images to Google+ for a web-based 360 experience.
As I mentioned earlier, the downloadable camera/gallery app also comes with editing options. Many of these are options we saw debuted in Ice Cream Sandwich, but it's still worth taking a quick look.
Users can add general filters, frames, and contrast effects, in addition to custom cropping, rotating, mirroring, and a handful of other handy editing features.
The build also includes a slightly refreshed Gallery. It has the same launcher icon and overall functionality like swiping from the camera app to a "filmstrip view," but the UI is slightly updated from its 4.0 and 4.1 counterparts.
To get the new camera/gallery on your device, you'll first of all need to be rooted. Assuming your device is already rooted, you'll just need to download the zip below and flash as normal.
Note: Original credit goes to XDA and AndroidCentral Forums but the download below contains a camera/gallery build that we patched to allow users of non-Nexus devices to capture and view Photo Spheres.
download link/source - http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...gallery-app-with-new-ui-editing-photo-sphere/
Anyone tried?
i tried works like charm on chameleon rom.......photosphere and video rec is giving me fc other than that everything is perfect
i did and working file on paranoid 2.52 with dorimanx kernel
well photosphere is working here
video recording not working for aokp m1
Video Recording in MIUI 2.10.26 not working
it's nice.
too bad video rec. doesn't work... hope someone will find a fix for this problem.
nice app
everything works great on sensation 4 (4.0.4) , but the videorecording gives FC
and Photosphere works perfect
SGS2 with CM10 nightly: Video not record, photos 8MB are OK, photosphere working...but when is Rendering panorama finished, show me window with FC. Is any way to show photosphere images in 3D view as on Streetview?
will it work on samsung based rom? 4.0.3?
Yes, it will work on stock, someone reported it working on chameleon.
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i just flashed it but nothing changed??
all the same
UPDATE:
now i have 2 apps for camera and gallery!
UPDATE2:
video recording not working.
pressing the record button again, makes the phone stuck... gallery also stuck if i press the special button.
UNINSTALLED via titanium backup.
SIYAH KERNEL, FOXHOUND 4.0.3 ROM.
No Preview !
Hi everybody, I've flashed the New Camera/Gallery on AOKP Build.03, have problem with it, there's no Preview images but it captures !
Any Ideas ?
Thanks
downloaded and flashed today at lunch. first it rebooted weird and killed half my battery but after another reboot all was ok. camera is there and new ui is nice. Photsphere wants to work but i dont quite get it. It seems hard to line up the first dot sometimes and then where to go? The most i got was a few images stitched together, its not quite right yet or i am doing it wrong.
I am running slimbean 2.8
ok this is THIRD Thread about this.
Is there any difference between the three versions on here? OR why is there THREE threads?! very confusing pls fix
Mirrors taken down at Google's request. =(
xsaintzx said:
Mirrors taken down at Google's request. =(
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Yes....so can someone paste a download file plz
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You can go to this theard if you want.
Sphere Not stitching well on i9100
Does any one get a nice stitch from sphere option?
I dont...
What is the max resolution of pictures? Sphere files seem to be much less detailed and sized in Sphere mode
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Ive been trying to find a "perfect" camera app for my DInc2 with a few key features.
*hardware volume button shutter option
*touch screen focus
*adjustable ISO
*clicking thumbnail goes to HTC Gallery app
Didn't think that would be so hard, right? But it always seemed that they came close, but were always missing one feature or another.
So, after many rounds of both paid and free apps I finally found Ucam
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucamera.ucam&hl=en
Has all the above features, plus more. It also has a stunner of a built in editing package, with tons of presets and discrete controls for brightness, saturation, contrast,etc., *BUT* it downsamples the image to like 1280x800 or something and I can't figure out how to make not do that.
But that's just gravy, considering it already fulfilled my wish list, so hopefully they will fix the resolution problem with the editor. Nice GUI too. And it makes animated GIFs, amongst other oddities. Did I mention the incredible sharing setup?
Plus, its FREE.
They also just came out with a tablet version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucamera.ucamtablet
Forums are here but a lot is in Chinese
http://forum.u-camera.com/
I may be late to the party and everyone is already using this, but I think it's worth sharing
I'm using nitsuj's TSMBullet and it has a great camera! The touch to focus, thumbnail brings to gallery, and it has manual, panorama, hdr, and burst mode. There isn't a volume shutter however. One of the best camera's i've used
mushypizza said:
I'm using nitsuj's TSMBullet and it has a great camera! The touch to focus, thumbnail brings to gallery, and it has manual, panorama, hdr, and burst mode. There isn't a volume shutter however. One of the best camera's i've used
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I have to agree. The bullet camera is very sharp.
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This app is awesome! Thanks for the tip.
Btw, to change the image size. Be in camera mode and scroll through the menu at the top of the screen, you should see a square with some sizes in it, press it and select the size you want
Sent from my Incredible 2 running Zeus 1.3
What ROM?
Anyone know if this works with the CM9 Kang ROM by areovan? This CM9 ROM is almost perfect. Only 2 issues that I'm running into:
1. Must run "su; killall drmserver" in the terminal after reboot in order to get Google Play to download/update apps
2. Flash on any camera app that I've tried (stock, angel, zoom FX) doesn't work.
I don't really care if the FFC or camcorder works, mainly need a camera app with flash as I travel a lot (business) and love to take pics at a moments notice with my phone.
Any ideas?
I've tried a ton of camera apps and this is by far my favorite after just a few hours of use. Thanks for the tip!
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2. Flash on any camera app that I've tried (stock, angel, zoom FX) doesn't work.
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You can turn on the torch before taking the picture and that should help.
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they just updated the app to 1.1.7 today, and it fixed a couple of repeatable crashes I was having and had reported...these guys are super responsive! They also said they would consider an option to not downrez the image in editing mode since many smartphones are powerful enough to edit a 8mp image (slowly) these days
This is a great camera app. Thanks for the heads up. Does it take the full 8mp wide pics like sense roms do? It looks like the pic fills the entire screen.
Sent from my Incredible 2 using XDA
This is just being posted for others with the same setup and might have been wondering about compatibility.
I am running the CleanRom 4.05. I downloaded the zips for the 4.2 keyboard and the 4.2 photosphere camera. I flashed them and they are working fine so far. I did read that when using the Photosphere camera that you have to focus and take an initial picture to prevent it from crashing.
When downloading Photosphere it creates an app icon which looks like a camera and it creates another gallery. So you will have two icons that say camera and two that say gallery. Stock gallery and camera still work fine.
I got the links of this XDA site. I just searched for them. Sorry I don't recall which exact links I followed.
Hey guys, I couldn't find this answered anywhere but, as always, apologize if it's a duplicate. A long time back, when I was first trying out 4.1, I found a link for a "better camera and gallery" that really was just that. The gallery had a sweet spiral view and the camera had both a panorama and a camera sphere function. The sphere let me take some sweet 3D pics but when I upgraded to 4.2.2, I noticed the overall camera aesthetics are the same as the 4.1, but the sphere function is gone as is the spiral view in the gallery (though I don't really care much about the gallery). My question is, it there a solid updated camera for 4.2.2? I flashed the zip I had saved way back when, but rather than replacing my existing camera and gallery, it gave me new ones (which I'm assuming is something to do with new architecture of 4.2.2, but I have no idea). My main concern is that now the camera often crashes upon taking a picture and until I reboot, the only message I get is "cannot connect to camera." Has anyone experienced and/or fixed this issue that could give me some input? I'd greatly appreciate it! Cheers
Seems like you are on AOSP based rom. They often has too many bugs .
In theme section there is camera with working photo spare by mike.
Here is link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1966426
Gallery you talking is note 2 gallery. Idk if its in there.
After I just saw, that KitKat's AOSP Gallery is supposed to feature an awesome photo editor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOs0vLY6FvA
I tried to install the Nexus 5 Camera and Gallery APKs.
Camera: http://goo.gl/VEBuiq
Gallery: http://goo.gl/a2QHTA
Interesting enough, camera and gallery are now separate APKs. I was running the 4.3 versions before, but had to hack the camera so it runs on my i9305, and system libs filtershow_filters, mosaic, and lightcycle were required.
These APKs seem to run without root (?), and I was just able to install them like any other regular APK. I'm not sure though if that would be the case if I hadn't the 4.3 versions installed before.
Bugs:
- Gallery's photo editor FCs (damn)
- Camera's photo sphere does not work in portrait mode (but is fine in landscape)
Improvements:
- Camera's flash finally flashes at the same time the picture is taken. ^^
Questions:
- Is it true that camera and gallery are working out of the box without the need to root and push .so files to /system/lib?
- Can anyone bring the gallery's photo editor to life?
I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE (i9305) with rooted stock Android 4.1 and Nexus 4 camera / gallery working before.
gulbrillo said:
After I just saw, that KitKat's AOSP Gallery is supposed to feature an awesome photo editor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOs0vLY6FvA
I tried to install the Nexus 5 Camera and Gallery APKs.
Camera: http://goo.gl/VEBuiq
Gallery: http://goo.gl/a2QHTA
Interesting enough, camera and gallery are now separate APKs. I was running the 4.3 versions before, but had to hack the camera so it runs on my i9305, and system libs filtershow_filters, mosaic, and lightcycle were required.
These APKs seem to run without root (?), and I was just able to install them like any other regular APK. I'm not sure though if that would be the case if I hadn't the 4.3 versions installed before.
Bugs:
- Gallery's photo editor FCs (damn)
- Camera's photo sphere does not work in portrait mode (but is fine in landscape)
Improvements:
- Camera's flash finally flashes at the same time the picture is taken. ^^
Questions:
- Is it true that camera and gallery are working out of the box without the need to root and push .so files to /system/lib?
- Can anyone bring the gallery's photo editor to life?
I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE (i9305) with rooted stock Android 4.1 and Nexus 4 camera / gallery working before.
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good job :good:
OK let's see I have had this camera on my phone since 4.4 dump was up.. I have i9305 running latest cm10.2... Camera needs the libs for panorama and photosphere to work properly. I don't have problem with camera it works perfect... I'll get back to u with gallery
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Yeah gallery doesn't work. Theres gotta be something missing that is failing to load
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The only problem I found with the camera. I took a picture last night in the dark. The picture took and the flash worked but the picture was pretty much like taking a pic with a phone backlight
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Camera still requires libs. You can download it here and copy it to /system/lib (chmod 644). Gallery editor still not working. If anyone knows how to make it work, do update. Thanks.
i9300, SlimBean 4.2.2: Taking Photos, Photosphere (Portrait and Landscape) works (including libs from x86phre3x)
Viewing Photosphere is only possible as photo, the photosphere button shows no reaction
I hope you find a fix for Camera's photo sphere in portrait mode soon
Unrar and put this in system/lib/
PajaroviL said:
Unrar and put this in system/lib/
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Don't want to trip my KNOX counter on the Note 3 and really want the 4.4 camera to work with photosphere, any chance someone can create an APK to include additions to system/lib?
so anyone can make the photo editor work with galaxys3
hope somebody can make the camera with flashable zip file so that no need put the lib file manually @@
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Here is a flashable .zip with camera, gallery and libs.
Download
aosp_camera44.zip - 7.95 MB
Photo Editor dosn't work
thanks to PajaroviL for libs
Atomregen said:
Here is a flashable .zip with camera, gallery and libs.
Download
aosp_camera44.zip - 7.95 MB
Photo Editor dosn't work
thanks to PajaroviL for libs
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wow nice, thanks for sharing
installable apk needed
Hi,
If possible can u make this flashable zip as installable apk?
moreover does this install as additional camera or replace the stock.
can I try this in stock 4.3 version?
I have flashed the zip on my 4.3 stock and all works fine but panorama doesnt work.
When i switch to panorma the screen stays black, but it make the panorma picture and save it. The picture self is ok.
Is there a apk with working panorama that i see it on the screen?
Can't wait for the real 4.4 for our S3's in the near/far future. lol
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Can't wait for the real 4.4 for our S3's in the near/far future. lol
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You can get 4.4 with tamasek rom
أرسلت من GT-I9300 بإستخدام تاباتلك
both camera and gallery work fine on my i9305 4.3.1 cm
No problem thx a lot
MsElise said:
wow nice, thanks for sharing
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Does this work on a custom rom (4.3)?
Thx.
I think yes, do a backup and try it out.
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Im not one for fancy OP so lest cut to the chase. I have been working on this on and off for some time now and i am at a point i feel i can call it ALPHA. This should only be flashed on KK or L GPE or pure AOSP. CM will have to be done differently they did some strange things to HW keys that makes camera not work at all.
Screenshots available here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56752405&postcount=1
What works?
Camera
Pan360
Split Capture
PhotoBooth
Selfie
Photo preview
HTC gallery
What needs some work?
Zoe camera wont open. ( if you choose Zoe options you will need to go to settings > apps > Camera and clear data to make it stop)
Camcorder (rotates the video when saving and cause the video to glitch)
Please have a valid Nandroid in case you want to go back. At a later date i can make an uninstall zip.
Special thanks to:
HTC
Google
Neo he pointed out that gallery was update to work without the security check.
Team Ecliptic for pushing me to get this working.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95853297432264770
*Disclaimer*
If you would like to use this work and continue on, be my guest. No need to ask for permissions. All i ask is that when you do use it, just give me a shout out.
@synisterwolf Do we need to install the gallery.apk also or is packaged up with the camera?
aaronpw0621 said:
@synisterwolf Do we need to install the gallery.apk also or is packaged up with the camera?
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i cleaned up the zip and packaged gallery with the camera. it also comes with Zoe the social network. if people dont want it i can remove.
Looks like there will be a tiny issue with L vs KK. Im going to need to set up a zip for both until HTC updates Camera to API19
I havent found any bugs myself. Well one. Not able to open gallery from camera app
aaronpw0621 said:
I havent found any bugs myself. Well one. Not able to open gallery from camera app
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Thus should work. Open gallery first then use the camera to open gallery.
Does slow motion video work in this camera? If not anyone know of a way to record slomo on stock lollipop, santods build if that matters?
abezzilla99 said:
Does slow motion video work in this camera? If not anyone know of a way to record slomo on stock lollipop, santods build if that matters?
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video still needs to be worked on. the camcorder saves the video all wrong and cause video tearing.
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Thus should work. Open gallery first then use the camera to open gallery.
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I tried this a few times but still wont open through camera. It starts to then just goes back to camera
@synisterwolf ... When recording video it only records in mms resolution from main camera. Not 1080p like it should.
When I had my HTC the only thing that kept me o 4.0 was the camera..this is a dream come true
Please if you canfind a way to make it work on cm12
Thank you very much man!! I'm on cm12 on HTC One S and it work! But I have only pan 360 , portrait and cam. Why?
Please don't tell me you'll drop this project :'(