Sony-PMCA-RE

The early Sony Alpha A7 cameras run Android (really: you could jailbreak and write your own PlayMemories apps) https://github.com/ma1co/sony-pmca-re https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/59226/does-the-son... So there must have been a way to do this at that time. (I suspect a simpler subsystem does initial boot response). I did contemplate building something around one of the Arducam modules and an RP2350.

> Rooting sony seems impossible, I never saw someone Working on it Since their Fullframe lineup launched. On some cameras, including the older firmwares for the current cameras, https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE gives you a root shell.

It's the same thing, one is just the out of box locked down Sony app-store controlled version, and this is the somewhat liberated side loading & build chain. It's some kind of Android layer running atop the base camera. > It is possible to develop custom Android apps for supported cameras. Keep in mind that they should be compatible with Android 2.3.7. https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE?tab=readme-ov-file#wha... I wish Samsung had had better success with their Android native powered cameras (as opposed to the thin shell Sony grafted atop), had decided to stay around. Cellphones have amazing & fantastic photo apps available, where-as the professional systems baked into cameras emphasizes post-production tools for computational photography. Being able to have app devs everywhere making your digital camera better & more usable should be s

Thankfully people have figured out how to add apps to some sony cameras https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE https://github.com/jonasjuffinger/TimeLapse

Sony used to have a whole Android subsystem on their Alpha cameras. It kind of surprised me more 3rd party stuff didn't come out that took advantage of this programmability. https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE

> It's fascinating to watch the camera companies slowly catch up to where Elgato was years ago; What's most amazing to me is how ineffective camera company's have been at getting a healthy ecosystem of tools/softwares growing. There was a brief bold attempt with the Samsung Galaxy Camera[1] to mate a decent camera with the Android OS & bring the well-known development environment, but it didn't take off. I still think this is the best chance camera folks have to be relevant, but there needs to be a bigger base of developer know-how incubated & grown. Starting expert communities is hard. Meanwhile, it turns out Sony's modern cameras actually do run Android, they just don't expose it. There are some really neat apps, for time lapse, for uploading to photo services, for a bunch of random itch-scratch wants/needs built atop this. It's all uno

https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE Here you go. You can edit the firmware to change read-only settings and install Andrioid apps, with an API to access the viewfinder and to take pictures with various settings as well as access them, and the network.

Technically you can run any android APK on a Sony camera. It's just the supported API version is old and many things might not work https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE