Thanks David.

> Preview size is supported in the current API, but ignored by the G1
> device driver.

Indeed. Wished this had been documented earlier to avoid a half-broken
app. Virtually all the problems with my released app were caused by
undocumented issues like these. Ever since I know it I can live with
it by simply not counting on preview sizing.

> Preview positioning works today on Cupcake and should work on the
> current G1 though I haven't test it.

OK, sounds good.

> Preview does not work correctly in portrait mode due to orientation issues
> - we're discussing how best to solve that problem.

Again I can live with it now that this is known as a fact. I just
enforce landscape mode in my app.

> We're also discussing how best to expose hardware capabilities with
> OHA partners. This is not likely to be addressed fully in Cupcake, but
> we plan to address it in a future release.

Ah, that is good. I consider this extremely important to prevent
future code fragmentation and minimize incompatibilities in running
apps on different phones. Thanks. Right now the best thing I can do
for users in supporting still image formats is to add a dialog where
they can fill in their preferred capture resolution (assuming users
know what their phone supports), because my app cannot determine what
the phone supports, so I set the dialog defaults to the current G1
camera resolution. Of course I'd rather have an API method that
returns a list of supported resolutions, and the content of that list
may then vary with brand and type of phone.

Regards

On Jan 7, 12:08 am, Dave Sparks <[email protected]> wrote:
> We need to differentiate between Cupcake the platform release and
> Cupcake running on a specific device such as the G1.
>
> Preview size is supported in the current API, but ignored by the G1
> device driver. I cannot get into specifics about the G1 device.
> Preview positioning works today on Cupcake and should work on the
> current G1 though I haven't test it. Preview does not work correctly
> in portrait mode due to orientation issues - we're discussing how best
> to solve that problem.
>
> We're also discussing how best to expose hardware capabilities with
> OHA partners. This is not likely to be addressed fully in Cupcake, but
> we plan to address it in a future release.
>
> On Dec 30 2008, 11:17 pm, blindfold <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Will Cupcake also address current (SDK 1.0 r2) camera API issues such
> > as the missing API methods for preview decoding, preview positioning,
> > and querying the camera for supported resolutions? Application
> > developers are currently forced to implement phone-specific (read: G1-
> > specific) solutions, while it ought to be hardware independent at
> > application level through appropriate abstraction methods (hardware
> > dependencies should be pushed down into camera device drivers, etc).
>
> > Thanks
>
> > On Dec 31, 3:16 am, Dave Sparks <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Support for video capture is a work-in-progress on the Cupcake branch,
> > > as are the other features on the list. Cupcake is a stabilization
> > > branch that will eventually lead to an Android platform release. After
> > > that, we expect that some hardware manufacturers will begin deploying
> > > devices based on Cupcake. The timing of when devices appear on the
> > > market is in the hands of the vendors and not under the control of the
> > > Android Open Source Project.
>
> > > Please don't ask when Cupcake will appear on your G1 because it's not
> > > within our control.
>
> > > On Dec 30, 9:24 am, Limi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Is video capture available in Android platform? if not when is it
> > > > going to be supported? Android 1.x ?
> > > > Also when are the new features shown on the roadmap are going to be
> > > > supported?
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Limi
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