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Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by MattTheRealOne »

Arainach wrote: post #27
eth0up wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not asking for confidence. Folks can use their own critical thinking and judgement. I expressed sincerity. Some concur, some don't. I'm not trying and will not try to please everyone. The current state of software is to some, myself, deeply offensive and many have passionate opposition to it. If you are into stockware, you won't ever find me in your way. But you'll not bully me into not expressing my opinion eith…

What dark patterns is the Pixel Camera app using, or what bad things is it doing with my data? In what way is my camera app infringing on my freedom? "It was written by company X I don't like" is not an answer - why should I replace my camera app specifically?

One negative of the Pixel camera app is that it forces Google Photos as the gallery app, even if Google Photos is disabled or not installed on the phone. I think there is a third-party shim app that essentially redirects requests to Google Photos towards whatever gallery app is set as default, but that should not be necessary.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by metalman »

useing this on moto g15 it had, untill a moment ago, one thing I did not like which was to play a sound for starting a video recording. works, does the thing without guggle logo and chirpy blather, paired with "fossify" gallery, which is nice as I can set the background coulor of the icon to black, and have my background screen set ot a picture of something black, taken in the dark, so the center part of the icon is all that shows.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by flykespice »

petterroea wrote: post #25
ValentineC wrote: post #24

I downloaded that on my spare Android phone (I'm primarily an iOS 17 user), but never ended up using it because it just wasn't aesthetically pleasant. I also don't really take photos using my Android phone, I guess. Randomly, I wish more UI/UX designers contribute to open source.

This. I've had so many projects where I wish someone who really cared about UX could just tell me "this sucks, if you want I can help"

Many programmers think they can cheat their way into designing a good UI, they just think it's just enough for you to learn and use a GUI framework, and place the widgets in a "good enough" way.

Just look at the monstruosity that is the GUI version of wget, it's the epitome of programmers with no UX background trying to make a GUI application.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by BeetleB »

eth0up wrote: post #22
esafak wrote: post #19

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Is it really as good as Google Camera at computational photography; noise reduction, night mode, deblurring, stacking, etc.? That would be very impressive.

Depends on specific purpose and values. And it's a simple installation away from empirical validation. Edit: one feature I'm fond of, when posting images on the Internet, is disabling exif data. I don't always want to put my coordinates on the Internet.

Disclaimer: I last used it years ago.

My experience was that while it was great with all the features, the photo quality simply was worse than the stock manufacturer app in newer phones. Only in my old Samsung Galaxy S5 was the quality on par.

Yes, by all means, everyone should try and compare.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by catgirlinspace »

flykespice wrote: post #33
petterroea wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. I've had so many projects where I wish someone who really cared about UX could just tell me "this sucks, if you want I can help"

Many programmers think they can cheat their way into designing a good UI, they just think it's just enough for you to learn and use a GUI framework, and place the widgets in a "good enough" way. Just look at the monstruosity that is the GUI version of wget, it's the epitome of programmers with no UX background trying to make a GUI application.

there’s a gui for wget??

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by g6taa »

MattTheRealOne wrote: post #31
Arainach wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What dark patterns is the Pixel Camera app using, or what bad things is it doing with my data? In what way is my camera app infringing on my freedom? "It was written by company X I don't like" is not an answer - why should I replace my camera app specifically?

One negative of the Pixel camera app is that it forces Google Photos as the gallery app, even if Google Photos is disabled or not installed on the phone. I think there is a third-party shim app that essentially redirects requests to Google Photos towards whatever gallery app is set as default, but that should not be necessary.

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