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Josh Bleecher Snyder
Josh Bleecher Snyder

Reputation: 8442

Supported camera preview sizes for popular Android handsets

I'm working with camera preview frames, and need to make a decision about what minimum preview size I will work with. I need fairly high resolution, and am trying to figure out the highest preview resolution I can get across the more popular Android handsets and OS versions. (Judging by this question about Nexus One / Froyo preview sizes, it looks like they sometimes change across OS versions for the same device.)

Is there a resource anywhere that basically lists the output of android.hardware.Camera.Parameters.getSupportedPreviewSizes() for lots of different devices (or device/OS version pairs)?

Alternatively, if there is no such listing, this question could become such a resource. I will very happily upvote any answers that include new individual data points for specific handsets / OS versions.

And to forestall the obvious comment: Yes, I know I will need to test my code on lots of devices anyway. But ideally I would like to make some reasonably informed decisions about resolution early on, without having to purchase a bevy of devices just to get started.

Upvotes: 14

Views: 6671

Answers (4)

jacob
jacob

Reputation: 2896

Lots of data here: http://www.kirill.org/ar/ar.php

My Nexus 9 running Lollipop has these front camera sizes:

1472 x 1104   1.333
736 x 552     1.333
1280 x 720    1.778
720 x 480     1.500
640 x 480     1.333
352 x 288     1.222
320 x 240     1.333
176 x 144     1.222

Upvotes: 4

Jannie Theunissen
Jannie Theunissen

Reputation: 30114

Nexus 4 running Icecream Sandwich

1280 x 720  1.778
800 x 480   1.667
768 x 432   1.778
720 x 480   1.500
640 x 480   1.333
576 x 432   1.333
480 x 320   1.500
384 x 288   1.333
352 x 288   1.222
320 x 240   1.333
240 x 160   1.500
176 x 144   1.222

Upvotes: 3

Jannie Theunissen
Jannie Theunissen

Reputation: 30114

HTC Wildfire running Froyo

1280 x 720  1.778
800 x 480   1.667
768 x 432   1.778
720 x 480   1.500
640 x 480   1.333
576 x 432   1.333
480 x 320   1.500
400 x 240   1.667
384 x 288   1.333
352 x 288   1.222
320 x 240   1.333
272 x 272   1.000
240 x 240   1.000
240 x 160   1.500
176 x 144   1.222

Upvotes: 4

Konstantin Pribluda
Konstantin Pribluda

Reputation: 12367

My experience tells me, that 640x480 is available almost everywhere, and even if bigger resolutions are advertised by camera object, not all of them are actually usable. I experienced segfaults on HTC Hero when I tried maximal resolution - data buffer used for passing preview images is mmaped, and this size seems to be limited

Upvotes: 7

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