Android 17 will let apps get the best out of your phone’s camera chops

Android 17 Beta 3 introduces vendor-defined camera extensions, android 17 Beta 3 adds vendor-defined camera extensions to the platform.

Phone manufacturers allows manufacturers to expose advanced camera features to other apps manufacturers can make features like Super Resolution available system-wide.

Third-party app developers enables third-party apps to query support for extensions developers can check whether a device supports vendor-defined extensions and use them if present.

Android (prior versions) previously offered a limited set of standard camera extensions earlier Android versions exposed standard extensions such as HDR and Night mode to third-party apps.

Ecosystem adoption real-world availability depends on vendor and developer adoption feature works only if phone makers enable extensions and app developers support them.