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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 wonger_ »

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.

There are some initiatives for designers to contribute to OSS, like this one: https://opensourcedesign.net

Dunno how popular/successful/active it is, tho.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by XorNot »

yonatan8070 wrote: post #62
seanw444 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That really should be a standard setting for camera apps.

If only the average person wasn't afraid of a directory tree...

It wouldn't quite solve it: the issue is it's very helpful to hit a button on my phones home screen to get "different directory" immediately via a different shortcut.

Like there's a fair bit of ergonomics here which I'm brute forcing by just having two camera apps.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by flykespice »

catgirlinspace wrote: post #38
flykespice wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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??

yes https://www.jensroesner.com/wgetgui/wgetgui.png

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by jimnotgym »

like_any_other wrote: post #77
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.

You're wishing for a very double-edged sword. UI designers do as much harm as good. Disappearing scroll bars, rounded window corners for square content, hiding primary functionality inside a hamburger menu when there's plenty of room for labeled buttons, removing maximize/minimize buttons in favor of non-discoverable keyboard shortcuts.. I'm sure I'm forgetting lots, and that's just on GNOME. As a rule, if you, a non…

More than anything, I wish UI designers would work really hard on V1.0 and then leave it alone. There is nothing worse than having things move around on stuff you have been using for years, especially if you use it professionally. Add the new options at the end of the ribbon MS. While you are at it, don't make the menu items suddenly bigger so they look good on my big monitor, but then hide some of them when I use my laptop (that they fitted ok on last week). Don't move the account menu from the top to the bottom Reddit. I think that is one reason I keep coming back to hn. The UI has been the same the whole time I have been here

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by LoganDark »

I 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 where I wanted photos. I couldn't find any documentation about this or settings about this; I must have gone through the entire settings tree at least five times trying to figure out why it was waiting for the camera to focus before taking a photo, but I could never figure out why, or whether it's possible to disable that.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Post by warkdarrior »

wyan wrote: post #85

It says it's OSS, but I can't find a link to the source code in the website, am I just being dense?

They seem to try very hard not to link to the repo. The website mentions "Open Camera's SourceForge page", which Google finds at: https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code/ci/master/tree/
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