androidapi

Android API is an overcomplicated beast full of nonsense. And this combined with JAVA ... a real nightmare.

• squeezing out informations
  Instead of just get information about cameras, "facing", "fps", "resolutions", you have to do a lot of acrobatics to scrape together from little pieces.
  e.g. CameraInfo.getLensFacing() may return:
• LENS_FACING_FRONT
• ...BACK
• ...EXTERNAL
• ...UNKNOWN
  or throw an exception... what? what the difference betwwen unknown and ...., or why not a fifth ...REALLY_UNKNOWN?

  If the device cannot return a valid lens facing value, it will throw this exception.