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This page provides an overview of support for panoramic photography in Android.
These features were first introduced in Android 4.2 with the Photo Sphere camera.
API for viewing photo spheres
For Android applications that wish to display photo spheres in an interactive
spherical viewer, Google Play services provides support for this functionality.
See the Panorama package reference
website for more information.
Photo sphere MIME type
In Android 4.2 we introduced a new vendor specific MIME type to provide
differentiation between regular photos and photo spheres that are 360 degrees
horizontally. Applications that wish to handle photo spheres of this type should
register an intent filter for the following MIME type:
application/vnd.google.panorama360+jpg
The Gallery application's Share menu uses this MIME type for 360 degree
photo spheres, so any application that has an intent-filter for this MIME type
will be added to this menu for devices running Android 4.2.
For example, the Google Maps application uses this MIME type to allow users to
upload 360 degree panoramic images for all Google Maps users to see
(a geotag is required in the image for upload).
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