You can grab a 480x320 picture, but it still takes a while to come back after you call takePicture.
The preview format is some YUV format. I think it's like YUV420P. I've been able to decode the luminance part (Y) (it's just in-order byte values), but I haven't tried to recover the color part. On Oct 25, 2:06 am, blindfold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's what I'm afraid of, that the G1 can only capture at full > resolution. I do use image manipulation APIs for downscaling whenever > possible, but that initial G1 hi-res snapshot presents the bottleneck > in performance and memory (failure with OutOfMemoryError on the real > G1). I hope that the Android Team can at very short notice specify the > unspecified G1 camera properties, since required APIs for querying > supported camera resolutions are missing in SDK 1.0 r1. Furthermore, I > would normally be decoding a low-res preview image instead, but the > SDK 1.0 r1 APIs do not support decoding of the (again unspecified) > preview format, while the preview cannot even be properly positioned > and sized on the screen due to, again, incomplete APIs (let alone > their implementation). > > I'm close to being forced to give up on Google Android because of its > immaturity in media processing (in my case camera input, audio > output). Moreover, it is very frustrating to have no indication > whatsoever when the various problems will be fixed. My equivalent > application for Java ME runs fine on almost all modern Nokia (S60) > camera phones (plus some other brands), so I am not talking about any > unrealistic goals here but just talking about fixing what is broken or > missing in Google Android and its implementation on the T-Mobile G1. > > Thanks > > On Oct 25, 12:58 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know if it's the case, but it's possible the camera ONLY > > captures at full resolution and to get lower resolution you're > > intended to use the image manipulation APIs... someone will need to > > confirm this however > > > On Oct 24, 4:53 pm, blindfold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I urgently need to know the *lowest* still image resolution supported > > > by the T-Mobile G1. Is it for instance 640 x 480 (VGA)? > > > > Thanks > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
