Live Photos is the Apple-designed system that debuted six years ago, coinciding with the arrival of the iPhone 6s when it arrived in 2015. A system that allows the user to record seconds before and after pressing the shutter button to get an image. with an animation which is enabled by default in the library. An iOS option which, however, also has is available on Android, although in a different way.
Android as such does not offer a similar function and they are already the different manufacturers who offer similar solutions but with different names. Samsung with Moving Photos, Xiaomi with Live Shot or Pixels are good examples. And if not, you can always resort to third-party apps.
Moving photos at manufacturers
They are few, but some manufacturers integrate or have integrated into their camera applications an option to take moving photos to which each has given its own name. Google with the Pixel and before with the Nexus 6P, or even Samsung and Xiaomi are good examples.
Move Photos on Pixels
In the case of having a Pixel, you are in luck because Google introduces the “Photos on the go” feature. Just go to the Google Camera app, then “Motion”. Once done, we can identify it if the icon with the play symbol appears at the top.
Can we choose the blur effect we are going to use. Swiping up opens the photo info panel and if there is movement you can see all the frames and choose the one that convinces you the most or even create a long exposure effect.
On Samsung and Xiaomi
For some Samsung models, the “Motion Picture” option appears. It does not appear in all models or at least in Android 11 and allows to record a few seconds before pressing the shutter button. It is the same function as Live Shot in Xiaomi, although in these two cases it should be clarified that does not appear in all versions of your personalization layers.
Apps on Google Play Store
Another option goes through use third party applications and in this sense, in Google Play Store we have different possibilities. Paid and free applications to choose the one that best suits our needs
Animated images
We started with Google’s own app like Motion Stills. It is very easy to use. Just pull the trigger and the camera app will record a short 5 second video which we can then see in the gallery and apply effects that allow us to trim the video, loop or fast forward the image.
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MX Camera
Another alternative is the CameraMX app. A free application which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and which, thanks to the Live Shot mode, allows the user to record a video clip of up to 8 seconds
Camera MX also offers access to its own gallery in which to check the result and from there you can also share the photos taken with other apps in the form of a video in MP4 format.
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3D Phogy Camera
It’s not exactly an animated photo in the style of Live Photos, but Phogy 3D Camera offers something curious. Instead of creating a small video clip, with this app we create some kind of 3d image using the mobile sensors and moving the mobile around the object.
The app will save these photos and attach them to show you the result in a kind of 3D that changes with the tilt of the mobile. The result can be shared as MP4 video.
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GIF Me!
GIF Me! This is another of the alternatives that can be found for taking photos in motion and as the name suggests, it focuses on make it easy to create animated GIFs
GIF Me! takes care of recording what happens for a second, but instead of video, it does so by taking a succession of photos for a few seconds which are then put together in a Animated GIF with a duration of 0.71 seconds. Then we can loop it, increase the speed or share it in other apps in GIF and MP4 format.
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Life Lapse Stop Motion Maker
It’s not exactly a live photo, but Life Lapse Stop Motion Maker achieves a similar result. It is an application that focuses on facilitate the creation of animated photos with which to later create a stop motion.
You can apply settings that affect focus, white balance, exposure lock, phantom overlay, frame rate or timers and share the result with other applications.
Life Lapse Stop Motion Maker
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GifCam
Another app that interprets Live Photos in its own way is GifCam. Allows you to take pictures either in burst mode or manually one at a time, with a maximum of 60 images. The objective of this application is to facilitate the creation of animated GIFs, in the purest GIF Me style.
Once the animation is finished, we can apply a series of filters to personalize and share the result in GIF format on social networks like Facebook or Twitter and in messaging applications like WhatsApp or Telegram.
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