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.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app
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. =(
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes....so can someone paste a download file plz
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
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
I'm on stock 4.2 JB rooted and unlocked bootloader and all.
I hate the 4.2 camera. It's plain lame. I get it that the photosphere thing is nice, but it takes a lot of patience to get a decent pic. So, meh....not a big fan. The controls are OK..convenient settings instead of going thru 5 steps to adjust the exposure etc is good. But what I miss the most is live zoom in option. Its there in the 4.1.2 in video mode. Allows you to zoom in while taking a video. Where's that in the 4.2 camera? Also, I've noticed that the camera has become laggy. Doesn't focus as well as the 4.1.2 app did. I could really take at least 10 pics within 3-4 seconds..all with decent focu...but this thing does take 8-10 photos but all crappy and out of focus. Anyone else face this issue? Anywhoo....the bottom line is I hate the 4.2 camera. To each his own. I love everything else about 4.2. How can I get just the 4.1.2 camera back? I tried to extract it from my nandroids and TiBu ...and install it.....but it force closes on me. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to get the 4.1.2 camera app on 4.2?
Lot of times the ICS camera, JB camera got released on its own and I remember having the ICS camera on my Atrix 4G running GB.
Help me get rid of my 4.2 camera app and get 4.1.2 back.........
Thanks,
vG
__________<[^_^]>______________
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Pardon any typps
__________<[^_^]>______________
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Pardon any typps
pull the gallery and camera apks from a 4.1.2 rom and push the apks to system/app set permission to rw- r-- r--. (delete the 4.2 camera and gallery before moving the 4.1.2 apks)
zoom is still there in both camera and video format. just pinch out (is there a such a term?) and you can zoom
thephantom said:
zoom is still there in both camera and video format. just pinch out (is there a such a term?) and you can zoom
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You are my favorite person for today. I feel soo dumb for not trying that. Thanks. But I still don't like it for the way it focuses.
__________<[^_^]>______________
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Pardon any typps
I'm on Touched by SGS3 v5.0 and flashed the Android 4.2 camera from the link on the ROM thread, everything is working great, Photosphere, Photo editing, and Sphereview but the video still keep crashing (actually it reboots the phone)...does anyone have a fix to this?
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.
I have been trying to get the old gallery2.apk from 4.1.2 to work in 4.2 The gallery itself works but the camera Force Closes. This is the error that occurs. It seems that this method has been discontinued in 4.2.
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: **android.hardware.Camera$Parameters.setCameraMode**
However it is possible to get it to work in 4.2 as this app has ported the ICS camera just fine.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...eraics&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Until recently this app by the same dev had the 4.1.2 camera working on 4.2. The latest update brought it up to the 4.2 gallery/camera.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wyLDEwMiwiY29tLm1vYmx5bnguY2FtZXJhamJwbHVzIl0.
Hopefully, a solution can be found. Anyone else have any ideas on how to approach this?
Are you using the Camera's lib files too?
You can't use CM camera on stock Android..
I have camera ics free (same dev as the jb+ camera) installed from the play store, it's very similar to the original jb camera and has all the video effects.
manumanfred said:
Are you using the Camera's lib files too?
You can't use CM camera on stock Android..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Using CM10.1 on my phone. I was able to find the old version of camera jb+ before they updated to the 4.2 gui, decompile it, replace the icons with the stock ones and rename the shortcuts to just camera and gallery. Works in 4.2 cm10.1 fine and is identical to the 4.1 camera app with a couple of extra features like volume rocker shutter.
blackhand1001 said:
Using CM10.1 on my phone. I was able to find the old version of camera jb+ before they updated to the 4.2 gui, decompile it, replace the icons with the stock ones and rename the shortcuts to just camera and gallery. Works in 4.2 cm10.1 fine and is identical to the 4.1 camera app with a couple of extra features like volume rocker shutter.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Using CM10 camera should require its lib files and maybe some of the modifications into the source files /framworks/media/ or somewhere....