Focus is not working well for Amazon Fire Phone

[card-io]

Focus is not working well for Amazon Fire Phone

[braebot]

It does look like card.io attempts to autofocus, which could be causing problems on the Amazon Fire.

We haven't had a chance to test with this phone. Each phone/camera behaves slightly different, so we'll have to analyze what's going here. Are you using the latest version of card.io?

[fcduarte]

Yes, I'm using the latest version. Well I could also request for a feature: when tapping on the screen card.io could try to re-focus, the same way as native Camera app works, what do you think?

[braebot]

I'm not sure how easy that will be, considering that we're already attempting to autofocus. I wouldn't think you can have both autofocus, and manual focus at the same time.

[fcduarte]

I see.. So since the card will always be close to the camera don't you think it makes sense to change focus mode to macro instead of auto-focus? That way you could also have the tap on the screen for focus.

Anyway it's just suggestions to be tested.

[braebot]

I agree in principle. My iOS colleagues tell me that in iOS-land, a user can trigger a refocus at any time by tapping the screen, but that it's still a manually-triggered autofocus, rather than specifying where on the screen to focus.

We'll discuss with the original developers about macro vs. auto-focus in Android-land. There may have been a method to their madness, and is definitely worth another look. 👯

[fcduarte]

Awesome, thanks! BTW on Android-land users are getting used to this same tap-to-focus feature because of KitKat, when it introduced the new Camera app.