Saturday, July 5, 2014

Android L with photos in RAW format – TELEPOLIS.PL

Camera 2 L API for Android brings a host of new photographic opportunities, including record RAW files or shooting at 30 frames per second.

It is a giant leap camera performance is determined by the developers who are in contact with Camera 2 API as the largest progress. Nexus 5 is gaining maximum speed of 30 frames per second in Burst mode or 8 fps when recording images at full resolution 8 Mpix. More efficient smartphones may prove to be even faster.

There are also functions known so far mainly with traditional cameras, such as a histogram, color control, semi-automatic locking mode of exposure or white balance, color adjustment flash Manual sharpening or write to Adobe DNG lossless RAW images.

Default setting cameras in phones do not always meet the expectations of users. Nexus 5 initially was set too long exposure time, making it easier raised about the pictures, and the HTC One did not deal with strong lighting and “burned free” personnel. These and other problems can get a few touches of the camera in manual mode on Android L, and mistakenly selected white balance can handle any application easily by reading the RAW-y.

So far, users of Android Nexusów 5 L Preview new features not they received. Camera app works very quickly, but with the “goodies” offers only lens blur, panorama, photos spherical HDR mode and exposure compensation. For additional features will probably have to wait until the final version of Android available L, planned for the autumn of this year.

View: Android L significantly increase operating time
See: Android L – Google rebuilds Android

Source: androidpolice, On

Android L with photos in RAW format – TELEPOLIS.PL

Camera 2 L API for Android brings a host of new photographic opportunities, including record RAW files or shooting at 30 frames per second.

It is a giant leap camera performance is determined by the developers who are in contact with Camera 2 API as the largest progress. Nexus 5 is gaining maximum speed of 30 frames per second in Burst mode or 8 fps when recording images at full resolution 8 Mpix. More efficient smartphones may prove to be even faster.

There are also functions known so far mainly with traditional cameras, such as a histogram, color control, semi-automatic locking mode of exposure or white balance, color adjustment flash Manual sharpening or write to Adobe DNG lossless RAW images.

Default setting cameras in phones do not always meet the expectations of users. Nexus 5 initially was set too long exposure time, making it easier raised about the pictures, and the HTC One did not deal with strong lighting and “burned free” personnel. These and other problems can get a few touches of the camera in manual mode on Android L, and mistakenly selected white balance can handle any application easily by reading the RAW-y.

So far, users of Android Nexusów 5 L Preview new features not they received. Camera app works very quickly, but with the “goodies” offers only lens blur, panorama, photos spherical HDR mode and exposure compensation. For additional features will probably have to wait until the final version of Android available L, planned for the autumn of this year.

View: Android L significantly increase operating time
See: Android L – Google rebuilds Android

Source: androidpolice, On

Friday, July 4, 2014

Do not wait for the Android watches Wear. In Poland, they will not be – Spider’s Web

If impatiently waiting for the arrival in Poland watches operating on the Android platform Wear, I have for you a nasty message. None of the companies producing as yet no plans to introduce them to the Polish.

As before each release of high-profile gadgets, I tried to raise them on the tests. Unfortunately, neither Samsung nor LG will most likely not be able to provide them to us, because these devices do not end officially on the Polish market. LG does not intend to issue watches, as in Poland, they would be useless. This is the result of an official position of LG in this case:

– Google does not intend at the moment to support the Polish language as the software Android Wear, as well as the accompanying application for smartphones. For this reason, the LG may not distribute this product through online channels in Poland.

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On the other hand Samsung does not intend to promote Gear Live, because officially it is not a product belonging to their offerings, as well as Chromebooks, as well as smartphones and tablets belonging to the Nexus line. According to Samsung they are more Google products than them and I must admit that even though this logic is a bit twisted, it is not possible to agree with her. Anyone who has used a smartphone or tablet Nexus knows that it is much more inventive than Google a hardware partner – Samsung, Asus and LG. Probably for Android Wear is the same.

Unfortunately, our local exchange Internet giant does not know anything about this. Given the problems with buying Chromebooków, Chromecasta and some devices with the Nexus line, we have to reckon with the fact that for a long time we will not be able to enjoy the Android watches in our stores. Especially that another company will be presenting his watch Motorola, which also does not treat our market as a priority.

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If we add to this the fact Watches that have not appeared in stores the fault of Google and its problems with the implementation of their equipment sufficiently good Polish language support, we can expect that Android watches Wear see in stores soon for a few months. I conclude so, since the date of the release Android Polish Wear do not know the hardware manufacturers themselves. It can be concluded that it will be the earliest in the last quarter of this year. Perhaps this is the purpose of Google, as the holiday season is the hottest time for many industries, including technology. And who would not want to get into the Christmas tree is not only pretty, but also smart watch? I would have despised him.

In practice, this means that in the near future we will be able to become the owner of the Android Wear only if we order it yourself from abroad or … buy at the Allegro from one of the talented traders who decided alone to fill the gap created by Google and sell watches with a large margin. And after the first review of these gadgets, many people opt for buying new gadgets, Google just from such sources give his left nut. Although the total does not have to, because without watch it and like without hands.

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Android L compared to Android KitKat extended working time … – PC World

Android L will offer energy saving system called Project Volta. First tests show that this can be a very effective solution that will significantly increase the battery life of smartphones.

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Smartphones zgotowa?y a real revolution in the mobile market. Unfortunately, along with the huge potential that offered, forced enjoying them fully for everyday users to remember a beloved gadget connected to the outlet.

Despite the passage of years has not lived to significant improvements in terms of power. Equipment manufacturers are trying to make other systems, however, care about the extension of battery life, an example of which we had the occasion of the presentation of flagship smartphones such as Samsung Galaxy S5 (Ultra Power Saving mode) or HTC One M8 (Extreme Power Saving mode). It should be noted here that these solutions are only doing this for you automatically, which in most they could do extra minutes looking for work smartphone.

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Google more in the game

Fortunately, extending battery life also proved to be an important goal for developers working on having come on the market in the autumn running Google Android L. talks about Volta system design, which intelligently managing the activity of applications (obviously needed here will be more support from the developers who will be provided with the right set of tools) should save some battery power your smartphone.

Today, it seems that Google has gone in the right direction. This was confirmed by site ArsTechnica, the editors have conducted tests using a smartphone Nexus 5 Their results showed that the Volta project is really promising solution that will help us to save a bit there, but quite a lot of energy:

– using Android KitKat 4.4.4 Nexus 5 while browsing the Internet via WiFi (refresh every 15 seconds) worked for 345 minutes
– when using the test version of Android yet, after L this result increased to 471 minutes, or until 36 percent

 

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Android and antivirus? There is no need … – PC World

chief engineer of the team responsible for the security of Android has given an interesting statements about the extent of risks for users of Google.

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According to the conclusions of many previous reports, security experts Android system is highly vulnerable to attacks by cybercriminals who to distribute malicious code also use Google Play store.

Google Play is safe

On this background, a very interesting statement falls responsible for the security of Android Adrian Ludwig, which gave just before the start of the conference Google I / O. Strongly rejected these proposals in it, noting that they do not provide information on the actual number of Android users who have been victims of malware coming from Google Play.

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“In practice, most people will never see a potentially harmful application. In fact, most people do not even know someone who would install potentially malicious application. Yeah, I think it is overrated risk” – said Adrian Ludwig.

It is worth noting that actually wile reports on infection Android mentions that they are primarily a source of dangerous apps from places other than Google Play.

Antivirus ? There is no need

Adrian Ludwig also commented on the commercially available anti-virus. In his opinion, 99% of Android users do not need to install such security on your device.

These words can also be translated as follows: Given the fact that currently on the market are used several Android devices billion (in 2014 want to sell them, according to forecasts over a billion pieces), in dozens of millions of cases of antivirus certainly would come in handy …