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| Google brings iOS 16's popular Photos feature to Android |
The changelog for the Google open source project shows that the company is working on bringing one of the most important photo features that Apple offers its users to Android.
Usually, Android devices are the ones that start testing innovative features that Apple eventually adopts, improves, and integrates into its devices, but it seems that Google has now adopted a popular feature in iOS 16 (iOS 16) for the next release, The Operating System version attached. give it.
Apple announced a new photo feature called "Continuity Camera" in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura 13 at its annual developer conference (WWDC 2022).
The Continuous Camera feature allows users to take advantage of the iPhone's advanced camera, microphone, and video effects and turn it into a webcam instead of relying on the built-in webcam on Mac computers.
While third-party apps allow top Android phones to be used in the same way, it looks like a similar feature to Continuity Camera will appear in future versions of Android, as per changes from the Google open source project.
As the feature name suggests: DeviceAsWebcam, it turns your Android phone into a webcam. Not much is known about the feature, other than that it will enable wired USB connections between phones and computers.
It's also unclear if Google will roll out the feature in Android 14, or if it could be delayed until version 15, which will launch in 2024, depending on Google's development status.
However, there is still time before Google's annual developer conference (Google I/O 2023) when the company will announce a new Android version and its associated features.