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DISCONTINUED, SINCE MY GOOGLE GLASS BROKE LONG AGO :(

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VGCamera - valerino's glass camera

Google glass camera as it should have been

Features:

• Can be controlled totally hands-free (i.e. ideal for surgeons)
• Can be controlled via touchpad too
• Always shows what the camera is looking at (preview mode), no more shooting pictures blindly!
• Zoom, can take zoomed pictures and/or videos
• Can take pictures while recording videos
• Configurable quality (high/low) for both videos and pictures
• Autosave (restart preview immediately after taken picture/video)
• Geotagging
• Sharing of the taken media on social networks / email
• Visible overlays to identify operation modes and selected options
• Stores the set configuration options across usages

Modes of operation

There are 2 modes of operation :

• 'Preview mode' (while recording or before taking a picture)
• 'Taken mode' (after recording has been stopped or picture taken).

Both modes can be controlled either handsfree and/or with the touchpad simultaneously (i.e. zoom with the touchpad, zoom more handsfree, take picture handsfree, save with the touchpad, and so on).

Hands-free

Preview mode

1. Starts saying 'VGCamera', app will start in Preview mode
2. Take picture with 'Ok Glass' -> 'Take a picture' as usual
3. Start video recording with 'Ok Glass' -> 'Record a video' as usual
4. Stop video recording with 'Ok Glass' -> 'Stop'
5. Zoom with 'Ok Glass' -> 'Zoom' -> 'In' / 'Out'
6. Toggle Maximum Zoom with 'Ok Glass' -> 'Zoom' -> 'Max'
7. Toggle Smooth Zoom with 'Ok Glass' -> 'Zoom' -> 'Smooth'
8. Toggle Autosave with 'Ok Glass' -> 'Options' -> 'Autosave'
9. Toggle Geotagging with 'Ok glass' -> 'Options' -> 'Geotag'
10. Toggle Overlay with 'Ok glass' -> 'Options' -> 'Overlay'
11. Toggle Quality High/Low with 'Ok glass' -> 'Options' -> 'Quality'
12. Close app with 'Close'

Taken mode

If Autosave is not set, after taking a picture (or video recording has been stopped), saying 'Ok Glass' you're presented with another menu which allows to:

1. 'Save' : save the taken media
2. 'Discard': discard the taken media and get back to preview mode
3. 'Share': share the taken media on social networks / email

Touchpad

Preview mode

1. Single finger tap on the touchpad shows scrollable configuration toggles for Geotagging, Autosave, Max zoom, Smooth zoom and Overlays (Only on autosave, look 6)
2. Swipe left/right zooms in/out
3. Press on the camera button to take a photo
4. Longpress on the camera button to start recording
5. Tap touchpad to stop recording if recording a video
6. If not autosaving and while recording only, tap on the touchpad to save taken picture or video (or swipe down to delete)

Taken mode

If Autosave is not set, after taking a picture (or video recording has been stopped), single tapping the touchpad you're presented with scrollable cards to Save, Discard or Share the taken media.

Currently implemented:

• Everything is fully functional for taking pictures and recording videos (saved in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera), but no display and share yet

TODO:

• Sharing
• Find a way to use built-in autobackup, unfortunately taking pictures using the Camera API seems to not trigger the autobackup correctly even when saving the media to the DCIM/Camera folder and triggering the MediaScanner to refresh. If some Google engineer reads, please please please tell me how to overcome this, there's a long standing bug filed (https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-api/issues/detail?id=588). Or, i will simply do it my way and reverse your original camera app :)
• Find a way to display the taken media in the timeline using the Mirror API (since Google removed the capability of simply creating static cards in the timeline). Or, i will revert to use my own internal viewer.
• Some more features: take-picture burst mode, timed videos, face recognition, qrcode scanning
• Provide head-scrolling menus (at the moment, 'Ok google' menus are fixed to 6 elements and non scrollable)
• Remove 'Ok google' and use custom commands ?

Compile with:

The usual android studio (needs Android SDK 19 with the Glass Preview SDK)

Bye!

cowabunga, ciao, bacetti :)

And please, Google .... you rock .... reconsider Glass, they're awesome!