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Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google has been testing the integration of Ultra HDR image capture into a limited camera API for Android 14.
What Happened: This API is designed to meet the basic camera needs of social media apps like Instagram. Once these changes are available to developers, users will be able to capture and upload Ultra HDR images to these platforms without needing a separate app, reported Android Authority.
Google announced at its I/O 2024 developer conference earlier this year that it would update its CameraX library to support Ultra HDR image capture.
Initial support for Ultra HDR capture was added to CameraX with version 1.4.0-alpha05 released in April. The full version 1.4.0 of CameraX will introduce new output format APIs to the ImageCapture and ImageCaptureCapabilities classes.