Merge "Camera: Clarify manual capture behavior for logical camera" into qt-dev am: 2655a0d0fc

am: 4fea62f7a0

Change-Id: I0b8aadad96630b4104961c294b3dc74b2195a308

camera/ndk/include/camera/NdkCameraMetadataTags.h

@@ -7689,14 +7689,14 @@ typedef enum acamera_metadata_enum_acamera_request_available_capabilities {
      * case, when the application configures a RAW stream, the camera device will make sure
      * the active physical camera will remain active to ensure consistent RAW output
      * behavior, and not switch to other physical cameras.</p>
-     * <p>To maintain backward compatibility, the capture request and result metadata tags
-     * required for basic camera functionalities will be solely based on the
-     * logical camera capabiltity. Other request and result metadata tags, on the other
-     * hand, will be based on current active physical camera. For example, the physical
-     * cameras' sensor sensitivity and lens capability could be different from each other.
-     * So when the application manually controls sensor exposure time/gain, or does manual
-     * focus control, it must checks the current active physical camera's exposure, gain,
-     * and focus distance range.</p>
+     * <p>The capture request and result metadata tags required for backward compatible camera
+     * functionalities will be solely based on the logical camera capabiltity. On the other
+     * hand, the use of manual capture controls (sensor or post-processing) with a
+     * logical camera may result in unexpected behavior when the HAL decides to switch
+     * between physical cameras with different characteristics under the hood. For example,
+     * when the application manually sets exposure time and sensitivity while zooming in,
+     * the brightness of the camera images may suddenly change because HAL switches from one
+     * physical camera to the other.</p>
      *
      * @see ACAMERA_LENS_DISTORTION
      * @see ACAMERA_LENS_INFO_FOCUS_DISTANCE_CALIBRATION
@@ -8330,7 +8330,7 @@ typedef enum acamera_metadata_enum_acamera_info_supported_hardware_level {
      * fire the flash for flash power metering during precapture, and then fire the flash
      * for the final capture, if a flash is available on the device and the AE mode is set to
      * enable the flash.</p>
-     * <p>Devices that initially shipped with Android version <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#Q">Q</a> or newer will not include any LEGACY-level devices.</p>
+     * <p>Devices that initially shipped with Android version <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build/VERSION_CODES.html#Q">Q</a> or newer will not include any LEGACY-level devices.</p>
      *
      * @see ACAMERA_CONTROL_AE_PRECAPTURE_TRIGGER
      * @see ACAMERA_REQUEST_AVAILABLE_CAPABILITIES