Highly unlikely. Applications are restricted to a heap of 16MB. An 8MP
image in RG888 will use 32MB.

I am inclined to deprecate that API entirely and replace it with hooks
for native signal processing.

On Feb 10, 6:17 pm, gjs <garyjamessi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping that Android will supported this in future for RGB888 and
> (at least) 8mp images.
>
> I know this is a big ask, probably requiring much larger process heap
> size ( > 16MB & high speed bus/memory ) but there already is 8mp
> camera phones available on other platforms.
>
> And yes I know these phones do not yet support loading such large
> images into (java) application memory but I'm hoping the Android
> architecture can accommodate this in the not to distant future.
>
> Regards
>
> On Feb 10, 7:01 pm, Dave Sparks <davidspa...@android.com> wrote:
>
> > On the G1, no data is returned - only a null pointer. The original
> > intent was to return an uncompressed RGB565 frame, but this proved to
> > be impractical.
>
> > On Feb 9, 3:57 pm, Xster <xyxyx...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > Our university is intending to use the Android as a platform for
> > > mobile image analysis. We're wondering what kind of information is
> > > returned in the raw format when android.hardware.Camera.takePicture()
> > > is called with a raw Camera.PictureCallback. I can't seem to find more
> > > information about it on 
> > > thehttp://code.google.com/android/reference/android/hardware/Camera.Pict...
> > > page.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Xiao
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