The changelog of the Google open source project revealed that the company is working to bring one of the most important photography features that Apple offers to its users to the Android system.
Usually, Android devices are the ones that start testing innovative features that Apple eventually takes, improves and integrates into its devices, but it seems that the matter has changed now through the adoption by Google of a popular feature in the iOS 16 operating system (iOS 16) for an upcoming version of the affiliate operating system. she has.
At the annual developer conference (WWDC 2022), Apple announced a new photography feature called the “Continuity Camera” in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura 13.
Instead of relying on the built-in webcam on Mac computers, the “Continuity Camera” feature allows users to take advantage of the iPhone’s advanced cameras, microphones, and video effects, and turn it into a webcam.
Although third-party apps allow the best Android phones to be used in a similar way, according to the changelogs of the Google open source project, it seems that a similar feature to the Continuity Camera will come to a future version of Android.
As the name of the feature suggests: DeviceAsWebcam,
it turns Android phones into a webcam. But not much is currently known about the feature, except that it will allow a wired USB connection between the phone and the computer.
He also does not know if Google will launch the feature in version 14 of the Android system, or it may be delayed to version 15 of the system that will be launched in 2024, based on the stage that Google has made of development.
However, there is still time until Google's annual developer conference (Google I/O 2023) when the company announces the new version of Android and the features it offers.