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Autofocus on Android Devices

By korayatlay on Mon, 10/28/2013 - 09:41

Hello everybody,

I want to ask somethigns concerning the Autofocus features in Vuforia SDK. 

Firstly i want to learn how the feature is decided to be functional ? Because on some devices that can do autofocus with their native camera apps, you cannot turn on the autofocus feature on ImageTargets 

Secondly, i am using Nexus S for testing at the moment, and although on your release notes section its mentioned like that below, in practice it says the device doesnt support autofocus when i try to turn it on.

  • Added new CONTINUOUS_AUTOFOCUS mode to QCAR and exposed it in samples via GUI
    • Note:Continuous auto focus is only available on select Android devices, e.g. Galaxy Nexus S, Pantech Vega Race

 

AlessandroB

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 10:53

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Hi, Vuforia queries the underlying Android system to obtain information about the supported focus mode;

if the "continuous autofocus" does not work,  you could try the "TRIGGER_AUTOFOCUS" mode, which will trigger an autofocus event once;

Hi,

So about my second question. It says as ,i wrote before , that Galaxy Nexus S has continuous autofocus, but my Nexus S cannot do that with ImageTargets. 

So does it mean that my Nexus S has some hardware problems? 

I would not think of a hardware problem;

rather, it could be that the device is perfectly capable of doing "autofocus", but does not support the "continous" mode; this means you can trigger an autofocus event, but this only works as "trigger" mode;