With the advent of Galaxy S10, Samsung finally chose to include an ultra-wide-angle camera in its higher-end phones. Now, the May security update for the Galaxy S10 is opening up support for the ultra-wide camera to third-party apps, which was not possible before.
The latest update to Galaxy S10 brings with it the «Ultra Wide SDK»For application developers. This allows third-party applications, add an option to use the S10's ultra-wide-angle camera directly from your application. This means that users will not have to use the official Samsung camera app to take a photo at its top-of-the-line wide angle.
Lots of new possibilities
This also opens the possibility of using the wide angle selfie camera. The default field of view for autofocus is 68 degrees, but tweak can be used to unlock the full 80 degrees. This value is modified in the Samsung camera app settings, but other apps default to 68 degree aperture. Thanks to this, we could modify the value of the aperture without resorting to the Samsung application.
All this has a "but"
Now this is a change that applications must make. If they use their own camera viewfinders, an update must be implemented to take advantage of the ultra-wide camera on the back of the Galaxy S10 and the additional FOV (field of view).
Some applications like WhatsApp has already been updated to take advantage of this functionality. We also propose a couple of alternative third-party applications that, probably, will soon also take advantage of this possibility as they are Camera Pro (normally for a price of € 4,99 but currently free) or also Open Camera.
We will have to wait to see it in Google Camera
Currently, this functionality has not been implemented for the official Google photos application, but we assume that it is a matter of time that in a future update, this functionality is implemented, as it would greatly improve the ability to take advantage of our Samsung Galaxy S10 device for lovers. from the official application of «the big G».
It should also be taken into account that the S10 with Exynos (those sold in Europe and Asia) do not have native support for the Google Camera application, therefore, it cannot be guaranteed that this functionality will reach some point in time. said terminals.
