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Autofocus on Android

By biztatig on Wed, 08/07/2019 - 17:07

I am using the latest version of Vuforia SDK 8.3. I see this question has been asked here before. I am setting CONTINUOUS AUTOFOCUS on the CameraDevice, it returns true, but the CONTINUOUS AUTOFOCUS is not happening. This is the pure Android version of the SDK so I am not using any ARCore or ARKit or Unity. Just Android Studio & Android SDK. 

1. Is there a solution to making AUTOFOCUS work?  2. If not, is there a workaround? 3. If not, can I get a link to download the older SDK that had CONTINUOUS AUTOFOCUS working? because this feature is a must. 

Please get back to me ASAP. 

Hello,

The functioning of focus modes on a device is solely based upon the OEM's implementation. Vuforia does not have its own implementation of focus algorithms - our APIs call native OS APIs.

The problem is that this was working perfectly in previous versions of the API, but this one doesn't work. There are discussions on here about this recent version breaking autofocus. and lo behold, this new implementation doesn't seem to allow autofocus.