Blackmagic’s Free Camera App Brings Remote Control And Tablet Support To Android

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Blackmagic Design has announced that it’s yet bringing respective precocious features already disposable for nan iOS type of its free camera app to Android. The Blackmagic Camera for Android 2.0 update released this week allows respective smartphones moving nan app to beryllium monitored and controlled from a azygous device, including, for nan first time, a mini action of Android tablets.

The caller multicam distant functionality, which was introduced connected nan iOS and iPadOS versions of nan app past August, allows a azygous Android smartphone aliases tablet to beryllium connected to up to 9 different phones moving nan camera app complete a Wi-Fi aliases wired network. The controller instrumentality tin beryllium utilized to show nan unrecorded video feeds from each nan connected phones successful a multi-view layout, commencement aliases extremity recordings, and group settings specified arsenic focus, zoom, model rate, achromatic balance, and shutter position individually aliases connected each nan phones astatine once.

Blackmagic Design’s Blackmagic Camera app moving connected an Android phone.

Although nan Blackmagic Camera app was primitively released successful September 2023 for iOS devices, nan rollout for Android has been overmuch slower and staggered. When nan app yet launched connected Android past June, it was only compatible pinch a fistful of Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones. Blackmagic Design has been slow expanding nan app’s compatibility to different Android devices, and this week’s update adds support for nan Samsung Galaxy S25, S25 Plus, and S25 Ultra. The precocious added support for Android tablets is constricted to nan Xiaomi Pad 6 and Samsung Tab S9.

Other features introduced successful nan Blackmagic Camera for Android 2.0 update spot support for Tilta’s USB lens powerfulness system, a UI update allowing users to “drag-select aggregate media clips,” German relationship support, and nan expertise to seizure video astatine 120 and 240fps connected Sony Xperia smartphones that support that feature.