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Android - Navigation Drawer with a twist

on May 21, 2019

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Welcome to my blog page. I am Ansh Sachdeva, A 3rd year Undergraduate and a passionate Android Developer. I am usually an awkward introvert personality , but I like to express my thoughts and journey with a pen or keyboard. So let's do this. - Ansh. PS: If you read any of my post, please don't forget to comment what you think about that. Grammar suggestions are more than welcome, I have a terrible vocabulary xD . You are in for a lot of "and" rides.

My Experiments with Android : Camera (Part 1 : introduction)

credits : https://pngtree.com/freebackground/camera-background_429514.html Camera is one of the most used hardware feature of any mobile phone. Today , not only it is being used in clicking photos or recording videos , but it has found its application in many other areas like live streaming, live editing, AI based object recognitions/scanning, virtual/augmented reality and much more. So, as a developer, it it would be very interesting to understand how this system works. In this article, I would be covering some basic overview of camera. Setting up our aim. Their can be a hundreds of ways an app could use the functionality of camera hardware. The topic of camera is actually so vast that it uses the uses the principles and knowledge from various domains : The way its lenses captures lights to generate images are covered in Physics The way the camera lenses are arranged and designed are covered in Mechanics, and The way this image is converted into a digital picture

My Experiments with Android : Camera (Part 2/X : Camera Intent API)

pic credits. As I discussed in my previous Article, the Camera Intent API (Am not sure its the actual terminology, but well.) is a simple and light way of achieving our original aim of receiving a picture captured via camera. In a nutshell, our app will not have any camera implementation of our own, we would be simply delegating our requirement to the system camera app . On a button click, the system app would open, take a picture and send it to our app. why is it good? Well: It provides a lot of small features like retaking a picture , toggling front/back/other cameras, toggling flashlight /hdr ,etc . basically it provides access to all features from the default camera app Since default camera app is being used, we are saved from implementing these features manually and in a Thread safe/ Leak proof manner. We are able to receive a picture directly with minimum permissions and checks It even provides us with a way to either receive a thumbnail* or actual image* {

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