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Playing and recording video is one of the most important features of an Android device. Video now became one of the main ways for spreading information and many times it is the preferred way of presenting educational information before text.

Android offers various APIs that enable video playbac...

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Recently I've been playing with Android's Bitmap processing using NDK (C++) and RenderScript. I used these technologies to create an Image Histogram. I later decided to create a similar tool for web using WebAssembly
www.sisik.eu/histo

The online tool has the following features

  • can extract...

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An Image histogram can be a useful tool when evaluating the exposure of your photographs. A quick look at the histogram after you took a photo might help you find out, if your photo is overexposed or underexposed.

Photography is a really interesting topic for me and I really would like to lear...

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A kiosk app is usually an app that forces an Android device to be used for a single specific purpose, preventing the user from exiting it or from using device features outside of the app itself.

In this post I would like to show how to create a kiosk app that works as a browser locked to full sc...

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Camera2 API is the newer API for controlling camera devices on Android. Although it is often used in cam apps from an Activity or Fragment, there might be some use cases where you want to acquire and process camera frames in the background while other apps are in the foreground.

Just recently I s...

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