No link to source and just says "The source code is available from Open Camera's SourceForge page." Why not link it?
Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android
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#92The website is almost unreadable with so many ads. Also I think this is overkill? "The following files are used in Open Camera"
You really need to start using an ad blocker. I don't see any ads at all, anywhere on the Internet. It boggles my mind that someone who reads HN does not use an ad blocker in 2026.
every once in a while I click on the google feed on my phone, which instead of opening in firefox like it should opens in some chrome webview with no ublock. It is truly atrocious (and... if you don't have unlimited data, expensive too).
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here is a screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/ukxte8.png I do have to wonder if this is a net negative. At least for me, it significantly reduces trust and respect for the website and developer, while I can't imagine the traffic produces any meaningful revenue? Edit: Just realized it's the same ad 4 times, haha. (I think the 5th one, offscreen, was the same too.)
What's fascinating to me is it looks totally different for me when I turned off my adblocker. We are i guess targeted differently by these ad companies. https://files.catbox.moe/9einuv.png
your ad is worse because it looks like it could be part of the website...
Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android
#94No link to source and just says "The source code is available from Open Camera's SourceForge page." Why not link it?
I couldn’t find it at first, but it is there on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code/ci/master/tree/app...
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#95With Open Camera, my device (and seemingly many others) have phantom cameras with IDs that crash Android's camera server if accessed. When that happens I have to restart my phone. Open Camera does not have a way to blacklist those. There are several issues open about this on the issue tracker but they have been open since 2020. This is not an easy problem to fix (LineageOS uses a manually populated key called "config…
If you have a Pixel and are willing to try GrapheneOS, you could also try their Camera app: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera
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#96Open Camera can also be found on F-Droid
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#97Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android
#98I used to use Open Camera, but I started having an issue where it would not take photos, and would just wait indefinitely for the camera to focus. It would completely lock up until I moved the phone somewhere else, pointed it at something, and waited and waited and waited for the camera to be happy about the focus, and only then would it take a photo. But this made it useless to get photos in most of the situations w…
You might have enabled the "Focus Macro" mode, which gives better pictures but requires a steady hand and patience
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh there are still ads as some are baked into the content, but I can live with those. How people can live with the normal amount of ads - no idea.
I had a friend years ago with laser focus. He was read an article on his laptop and I was behind him. I asked him how he tolerating the flashing chumbox ad. "Why don't you install Adblock Plus (the ad blocker of the day)?". He had to look around his screen for a second to find it. He said he didn't even register it before I told him about it. Even a single dead pixel would seriously distract me but he didn't even not…
One aspect of that is people who have learned to ignore ads. One aspect of that is that many people do not perceive their entire screen at once.
I tend to catch almost everything on the screen when I'm taking it in, and if someone asks me about something on the screen I can generally find it in a small fraction of a second; I don't take in every last detail (e.g word of text) simultaneously, but I have every major UI element in mind. I have observed that many people are focused specifically on one thing and don't notice a thing I call attention to without searching the screen for multiple seconds.
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#100I quite appreciate that Open Camera has a large, granular list of image resolutions. My phone's stock camera app gives me more pixels (more file size) than I usually need and also adds a ton of unnecessary metadata.