Google has quietly added help for Android’s new Extremely HDR Picture Format in Google Messages when sending messages over RCS. Photos on this format when despatched over RCS will preserve their meta knowledge and can show appropriately on the receiving system.
This was first seen by TheSpAndroid via the inclusion of the flag bugle.support_ultra_hdr inside the applying APK. The authors of the weblog publish confirmed via crowdsourced testing that the characteristic certainly works on Google Pixel 8 units when sending photographs over RCS.
The Extremely HDR Picture Format is a latest inclusion in Android 14. This format is basically a variation of the venerable JPEG and works by encoding a logarithmic vary achieve map picture within the metadata. When such a picture is displayed on a tool that may learn this metadata and has an HDR show, the picture is displayed in a wider dynamic vary with brighter spotlight luminance and better shadow element. When displayed on a tool with no metadata help, the bottom JPEG picture is displayed in normal dynamic vary.
Google added help for this characteristic again in September previous to Pixel 8 launch. The Pixel 8 units are the primary Android units to seize photographs on this format and whereas the older Pixel units can not seize them they will nonetheless show these photographs as supposed.
Nonetheless, although this characteristic is now constructed into Android, we’ve not seen better adoption. OnePlus and Oppo have a model of this characteristic that they’ve constructed into their model of Android referred to as ProXDR and the metadata of those units is just not suitable with the Extremely HDR supporting units just like the Pixel telephones (and vice versa). Apple, after all, has had a characteristic much like this because the iPhone X and in addition makes use of its personal distinctive metadata that’s incompatible with others.
To ensure that this know-how to be related, firms might want to come collectively and decide on a single format, a minimum of within the Android world because it’s unlikely Apple will undertake Google’s normal when it has its personal, even when it has promised help for RCS.
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