Android 13 to give more control over the phone's LED flash

Ro, 03 March 2022

According to a developer already familiar with Google's recently released Android 13 developer preview, Google may give you more granular control over your LED flash on the back of the phone. There are two APIs associated with the new feature - one gives information about the brightness of the LED flash and the other one controls the actual brightness.

Android 13 to give more control over the phone's LED flash

Of course, it will be up to OEMs to tap on those APIs and let you control the brightness from 1 to as high as the hardware allows. Notably, not every phone will support the said feature, probably due to hardware limitations.

For now, some Samsung handsets allow you to dim the LED flash as well as iPhones.

Source

Google Android

Reader comments

Alpha
03 Apr 2022
X{X

Search Playstore, a lot of flashlight apps there already can do this as long as the hardware supports.

Johnny
06 Mar 2022
7Wg

Yes your 100% I would even further to say where is that Xenon flash from back in the day like Nokia N8 etc... Sonyericsson.... Where is the lens cover that used to be on most phones.

AnonF-1006353
05 Mar 2022
gD$

Long overdue!! Always had to root the sh.. out of my xperias to make their puny dim LED flashlight at least somewhat usable for a night walk. Basic feature that should have been implemented by all major brands for years by now, still only samsun...