WireGoggles Version 2.2 Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Brian Nenninger

Available in the Android Market here.

WireGoggles is an application for Android devices that displays real-time wireframe outlines of what your camera is looking at. You can select from 20 color schemes or create your own. The paid version can save pictures and record video and audio.

WireGoggles supports Android 1.6 and later. Its performance is very dependent on the speed of your device, especially at higher quality settings. It works well on the Nexus One; slower phones will be less smooth. The image processing code is written in C for maximum efficiency.

There is a "debug mode" which will show frames displayed per second, average image rendering time, and camera image size and frame rate. To toggle debug mode on and off, touch the screen for 3 seconds.

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Version History

2.2, Sep 6 2011:

• Added grid display of pictures that you've taken. When you select a picture, you can change its color scheme and share it via email or via other apps you have installed such as Google+. Note that pictures you've taken in earlier versions won't appear in the grid.
• Fixed bugs that could cause out of memory errors. Toast.makeText apparently keeps a reference to the Context that you pass it, which is not good if it's holding on to large bitmaps. Using getApplicationContext() instead of the current Activity seems to fix it.

2.1.2, Jul 11 2011:

• Improved audio/video synchronization when playing back recordings and exporting to WebM.

2.1.1, May 18 2011:

• Added options screen with preferences to enable/disable audio, and record high resolution video (i.e. using the full resolution instead of applying the 2/3 reduction introduced in 2.0).

2.1, May 8 2011:

• Added "Noise Filter" option, which can reduce extraneous lines in images. (Depending on the scenario it may remove desired detail as well).
• Added 4 additional color schemes.
• Improved UI of color selection grid, checkboxes are no longer on top of grid cells.

2.0, May 2 2011:

• Added audio support for video recordings. That was *hard*.
• Reduced resolution of recorded videos by a factor of 2/3, thereby writing only 4/9 of the original pixels. This substantially improves frame rates.

1.9, Apr 4 2011:

• Added exporting of videos to WebM.

1.8, Mar 20 2011:

• Added video recording.
• Added animated gradient color schemes.

1.7.3, Jan 9 2011:

• Improved performance by using fixed preview callback buffers on Android 2.2 (Froyo) and later.

1.7.2, Dec 18 2010:

• Added support for front-facing cameras on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).

1.7.1, Dec 4 2010:

• Fixed bug where solid color setting wasn't saved.
• Generated ARMv7-a native code for improved performance on newer devices.

1.7, Oct 24 2010:

• Added "Matrix" mode and option to display solid colors rather than outlines.
• Added ability to view pictures immediately after taking them.

1.6, Sep 30 2010:

• Added ability to create custom color schemes.
• Support for installation on SD card on Froyo.
• Modified gradient algorithm to make intermediate colors brighter.

1.5.1, Jul 25 2010:

• Fixed bug that could cause horizontal line to appear in saved images, caused by the bitmap object being updated by a background thread while the save was in progress.

1.5, Jul 3 2010:

• Added 2d gradients.
• Added zoom in/zoom out for Froyo and later, activated by double-tapping.

1.4, Apr 24 2010:

• Added grid for selecting color scheme.
• Improved performance by storing camera frame if it arrives when the processing thread is busy with the previous frame.
• Hopefully fixed intermittent crash on quit, caused by attempting to refresh the main view when the app is hidden.
• Added debug output showing performance and camera stats, toggled by touching screen for 3 seconds.

1.3, Apr 18 2010:

• Added color modes with non-black backgrounds.
• Added support for taking pictures with camera and trackball buttons.
• Improved performance by limiting camera frame rate to 10 frames per second on the Droid, and 15 on other phones.

1.2, Mar 13 2010:

• Added gradients.
• Fixed problems with small screens where not all buttons were visible.

1.1, Mar 6 2010:

• Added picture-in-picture mode which shows normal camera view in a corner of the screen.
• Set camera image size as close as possible to screen size. This especially helps on the Droid, where the screen size is 854x480 but the camera preview size defaults to 640x480.
• Minor performance improvements.

1.0, Feb 23 2010:

• Initial release.

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