Any of your favorite apps can take Ultra HDR photos

Photography from an Android mobile has improved qualitatively from year to year, but taking a photo from a third-party application, such as Instagram, Snapchat or any other, results in poorer quality capture than one that can be extracted from the mobile camera app itself. Google now wants to transform this experience so that it is worthy and does not even need to be used on the same smartphone.

Currently, the user has become accustomed to using the mobile camera app to take the best photo possible. and thus transmit it to the third-party application, like any social network

or a messaging application like WhatsApp; Even in the latter case, with the improvement in resolution when sharing images, it is still advisable to use the mobile application.

Google’s Pixel 8 series launched support for the Ultra HDR image format in October. deliver more dynamic and brighter images when viewed from a display that supports HDR (High Dynamic Range). The same thing happened with Samsung and its new Galaxy S24 series to confirm that Snapchat and Instagram will offer Ultra HDR support on these new smartphones. Indeed, one of the new features of Android 14 would be support for this format.

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Now the important part comes, as Mishaal Rahman, a renowned Android expert, discovered that Google will add support for capturing images in Ultra HDR in the CameraX API. This means that third-party apps that support CameraX will be able to take photos in Ultra HDR so that they can be seen in their full essence on HDR displays.

In other words, not only will applications dedicated to social networks or messaging benefit from this new feature, but Any third-party application will be able to benefit from this great experience

and hence the user does not even need to use the mobile camera app to capture these photographs with more vibrant colors.

At the moment we don’t know If this new feature will be available for all mobile phones (with the requirement that the display offers HDR support), or only a selection of them. This is a new discovery that Rahman made, according to Android Authorityto give Android the ability to exponentially improve the quality of photos taken from a third-party application.

what was precisely one of its biggest flaws so that you notice the quality between taking a photo with the mobile camera app or from any third-party app. This way, one of the worst experiences Android still has when it comes to taking photos will be solved.