Merge "Camera: Clarify manual capture behavior for logical camera" into qt-dev am: 2655a0d0fc
am: 4fea62f7a0
Change-Id: I0b8aadad96630b4104961c294b3dc74b2195a308
diff --git a/camera/ndk/include/camera/NdkCameraMetadataTags.h b/camera/ndk/include/camera/NdkCameraMetadataTags.h
index 7cd832a..8dd6e00 100644
--- a/camera/ndk/include/camera/NdkCameraMetadataTags.h
+++ b/camera/ndk/include/camera/NdkCameraMetadataTags.h
@@ -7689,14 +7689,14 @@
* case, when the application configures a RAW stream, the camera device will make sure
* the active physical camera will remain active to ensure consistent RAW output
* behavior, and not switch to other physical cameras.</p>
- * <p>To maintain backward compatibility, the capture request and result metadata tags
- * required for basic camera functionalities will be solely based on the
- * logical camera capabiltity. Other request and result metadata tags, on the other
- * hand, will be based on current active physical camera. For example, the physical
- * cameras' sensor sensitivity and lens capability could be different from each other.
- * So when the application manually controls sensor exposure time/gain, or does manual
- * focus control, it must checks the current active physical camera's exposure, gain,
- * and focus distance range.</p>
+ * <p>The capture request and result metadata tags required for backward compatible camera
+ * functionalities will be solely based on the logical camera capabiltity. On the other
+ * hand, the use of manual capture controls (sensor or post-processing) with a
+ * logical camera may result in unexpected behavior when the HAL decides to switch
+ * between physical cameras with different characteristics under the hood. For example,
+ * when the application manually sets exposure time and sensitivity while zooming in,
+ * the brightness of the camera images may suddenly change because HAL switches from one
+ * physical camera to the other.</p>
*
* @see ACAMERA_LENS_DISTORTION
* @see ACAMERA_LENS_INFO_FOCUS_DISTANCE_CALIBRATION
@@ -8330,7 +8330,7 @@
* fire the flash for flash power metering during precapture, and then fire the flash
* for the final capture, if a flash is available on the device and the AE mode is set to
* enable the flash.</p>
- * <p>Devices that initially shipped with Android version <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#Q">Q</a> or newer will not include any LEGACY-level devices.</p>
+ * <p>Devices that initially shipped with Android version <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build/VERSION_CODES.html#Q">Q</a> or newer will not include any LEGACY-level devices.</p>
*
* @see ACAMERA_CONTROL_AE_PRECAPTURE_TRIGGER
* @see ACAMERA_REQUEST_AVAILABLE_CAPABILITIES