Accelerate Your On-device AI with the Qualcomm AI Engine | by PAD Editorial | Sep, 2023
What would you do with several teraOPS of compute available for running your machine learning models on a mobile device? That would really open up your options in robotics, edge computing, connected cameras and always-on applications, wouldn’t it? Hardware acceleration can speed up neural network…
Adding HDR Video Capabilities to Android Apps | by PAD Editorial | Sep, 2023
TL;DR: High Dynamic Range (HDR) provides improved color, contrast, and brightness for visually stunning video experiences in media-rich Android apps. Developers can enhance their Android apps with HDR video capabilities on devices powered by Snapdragon mobile platforms. This blog dives into using Android’s Camera2 API…
Building Media-Rich Android Apps with MediaCodec and Vendor Extensions | by PAD Editorial | Sep, 2023
If you’re developing media-rich apps for Android, you’ll want to become familiar with the Android API’s MediaCodec class. MediaCodec provides access to low-level media encoder/decoder (CODEC) components for processing audio, video, and compressed data. With it, you can incorporate features like low-latency decoding to enhance…
How Qualcomm Added Audio Offload Support for ExoPlayer | by PAD Editorial | Sep, 2023
If you build rich media apps, you’ve probably used the Android API’s MediaPlayer class for video playback. Like many developers, you may have found that the API’s lack of dynamic streaming support over HTTP, smooth streaming, and persistent caching pushed you to find an alternative….