Android Builders Summit 2013 - Camera 2.0: The New Camera Hardware Interface in Android 4.2

The Linux Foundation
Android Builders Summit 2013
Camera 2.0: The New Camera Hardware Interface in Android 4.2
By Balwinder Kaur & Ashutosh Gupta
San Francisco, California

Android 4.2 was released with a new Camera Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) Camera 2.0. Camera 2.0 has a big emphasis on collection and providing metadata associated with each frame. It also provides the ability to re-process streams. Although the APIs at the SDK level are yet to expose any new APIS to the end user, the Camera HAL and the Camera Service architecture has been revamped to a different architecture. This presentation provides an insight into the new architecture as well as covering some of the challenges faced in building production quality Camera HAL implementations.
The intended audience for this conference session is engineers who want to learn more about the Android Camera Internals. This talk should facilitate engineers wanting to integrate, improve or innovate using the Camera subsystem.