There are a lot of ways to measure things with your Android camera. You can take pictures of objects and then measure their size, or you can take pictures of people and then measure their height. There are also a lot of apps that allow you to take pictures and track the movement of objects, so there are a lot of possibilities for measuring things with your Android camera.
Android: Measure is a free app from Google that uses your camera and augmented reality to measure any object. It’s really cool.
Sometimes you quickly want to measure something but you don’t have a tapemeasure handy. The idea behind Measure is that you can use your phone instead: just open the app, move your phone around a little, then indicate which points you’d like to measure.
Here’s what that looks like in action:
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There’s a lot of elaborate math at work here, and it seemed to work great in our brief tests. Apple made an app with the same name for iPhone a while back, so check that out if you’re an iPhone user.
Measure via Product Hunt
