Pixel Camera

Pixel Camera
Original author(s)X Development
Developer(s)Google, Google Research
Initial releaseApril 16, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-04-16)
Stable release
Android9.3.160.618263973.21 / April 3, 2024; 7 months ago (2024-04-03) [1]
Wear OS9.2.072.585804376.14 / December 8, 2023; 11 months ago (2023-12-08)[2]
Operating systemAndroid, Wear OS
TypeCamera
LicenseProprietary

Pixel Camera is a camera phone application developed by Google for the Android operating system on Google Pixel devices. Development with zoom lenses for the application began in 2011 at the Google X research incubator led by Marc Levoy, which was developing image fusion technology for Google Glass.[3] It was publicly released for Android 4.4+ on the Google Play on April 16, 2014.[4] The app was initially released as Google Camera and supported on all devices running Android 4.4 KitKat and higher. However, in October 2023, coinciding with the release of the Pixel 8 series, it was renamed to Pixel Camera and became officially supported only on Google Pixel devices.[5]

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  3. ^ "Meet Gcam: The X graduate that gave us a whole new point of view". Medium. 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  4. ^ Kellex (16 April 2014). "Google Camera Quick Look and Tour". Droid Life.
  5. ^ Li, Abner (October 13, 2023). "'Google Camera' is now 'Pixel Camera' on the Play Store". 9to5Google. Archived from the original on October 14, 2023. Retrieved October 15, 2023.