Petros DouvantzisAnalyze HDR videos like a proHave you ever wondered how many nits an HDR movie reaches in a specific scene? How bright the sun or that tiny specular reflection is? Or…5 min read·Nov 12, 2023----
Petros DouvantzisAndroid Intent security vulnerabilitiesIntents are a primary element of Android architecture. They can be used used to start activities, services, enable IPC (Inter-process…6 min read·Apr 20, 2022----
Petros DouvantzisPublish a multi-module Java/Android library to Maven Central + GitHub CI automation at 2021As an Android developer, I have to fiddle with Gradle from time to time, but I never quite managed to get to a point where my thoughts…8 min read·Apr 22, 2021--2--2
Petros DouvantzisAndroid 10 & 11 storage cheat sheetGoogle keeps changing the way apps can access shared files by adding and lifting restrictions to existing APIs to the point they had to…3 min read·Mar 4, 2021----
Petros DouvantzisHalf-Life Alyx theoryIf you haven’t played the game (or seen the ending), you better stop right here, us the following contain spoilers.3 min read·Jan 30, 2021----
Petros DouvantzisHalf-Life: Alyx performance analysis (or: why low graphic settings produce a sharper image)I have been a happy PSVR user for more than 1 year and due to Alyx, I got the Valve Index. Alyx and the Index live in the PC space and…12 min read·Jun 6, 2020----
Petros DouvantzisVSYNC with low input lag (50ms lower!!!)Too good to be true right? TLDR: limiting the game’s framerate and enabling vsync effectively disables buffer queueing and thus input lag…5 min read·Apr 26, 2018--5--5
Petros DouvantzisBuilding my new PCMy PC and my Macbook are the center of my digital-life (besides the mobile phone I use as my daily driver). I use my PC mainly for Android…6 min read·Feb 2, 2018----
Petros DouvantzisAlias free resize with RenderScriptResizing a bitmap is a quite common task. Let’s say you want to create a thumbnail from a source image; you will have to resize it to quite…5 min read·Nov 8, 2017--7--7
Petros DouvantzisOptimizing MediaMuxer’s writing speed.Our efforts towards optimizing real-time video processing in Android.3 min read·Dec 9, 2015----