Android 14 will soon launch, and with it, we’re going to see some new and exciting features. If you use Google Photos, then you might like this news. According to Android Police, Google Photos is preparing to support Android 14’s Ultra HDR format.
Back in May, Google announced the Ultra HDR format slated to come with Android 14. This is a backward-compatible HDR format that will actually downgrade to SDR (standard dynamic range) when needed. Say, you take an HDR image, but you’re trying to view it on a non-HDR display. Well, the system will actually drop that down to SDR.
However, if you then view that same photo on an HDR screen, it will then snap to HDR. This is a way of letting apps knock images down to SDR without compressing them.
The Ultra HDR format was discovered in Google Photos
This is a standard that Google is planning on distributing to many apps, but it was first discovered in its first-party photo app. AssembleDebug discovered some code in Google Photos version 6.51.0.561138754. These notes read”
Ultra HDR disabled
UltraHdrPreviewFragment
EDITOR_ULTRA_HDR_PREVIEW
photos_mediadetails_details_ultra_hdr
These notes point to the Ultra HDR feature in the app. These are just a few lines for right now, so we’ll see more code for this feature come up as time goes on. As stated before, this is going to come out with Android 14, so there’s still some time to wait. Also, we don’t know if this feature will come out when Android 14 hits or if it will launch in a QPR. Only time will tell.
In other Google news
Google Chat, the company’s WhatsApp competitor, now has a new AI feature called Duet AI. This is a generative AI assistant that users can use to speed up their tasks. Since it uses generative AI, it’s able to create content, summarize documents, answer questions about Drive files, and more.
If you have a Workspace account, and you want to try it out, you can do so today.