Best Android Device to scan?

General Discussion
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Hi everyone,

I use Scaniverse since a long time on the iPhone from our test department in the office. It’s so cool with the LiDAR sensor. It works very well and helps me a lot with measuring to develop my racecar.

But I am an Android user. I even tried switching to iPhone because of Scaniverse, but I hated it. At that point, I realized Scaniverse is also available on Android.

I’ll get to the point. What Android phone can scan the best? Or at least come as close as possible to the iPhone behavior with the LiDAR sensor?
Can Scaniverse use iToF sensors?
Where is the journey heading on Android?

Tested Smartphones

  • Oppo Reno 10: No GPU support, scanning is slow but acceptable. No measurements recorded.
  • Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: Hardware is fine, but no measurements recorded. Scanning behavior is similar to the Oppo, likely without additional sensor utilization for depth measurement.
  • Sony Xperia 1 V: Hardware is fine, but no measurements recorded. Scanning behavior is again similar to the Oppo, likely without additional sensor utilization for depth measurement.

So far, the experience is ok, but unfortunately far away from IPhone.

Thank you a lot!

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Btw. I tested it now with a Xiaomi 14 Ultra ( which has a ToF Sensor)
It works the same as on the other android devices. Still far away from scanning with an iPhone.
I hope this will be improved soon.

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Everything on Android is on the same playing field. It only uses the cameras to capture and basic Vulkan on the GPU to process.

There should be little to no difference no matter what phone you use aside from overall processing time.

ToF/Lidar sensors never caught on with Android sadly. I still keep my S20+ around just for this feature. There’s no reason for Niantic to target a total of maybe 10 Android phones that have the special hardware. (11 matches for ToF from this page and some are dups ARCore supported devices  |  Google for Developers)

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I built a earlier existing 3D scanning app and will improve this now for myself. If you want to check out:

its already good (as far as ToF Sensors are good). but it will be great in the future :slight_smile: