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Re:Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android by Sateallia on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:05PM (#47280377)
With 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_ignoredAuxCameraIds" in device trees to solve this for their Aperture camera app) but at least an option to filter those out manually if I know what I'm doing would be nice.

The other two prominent open source camera apps are Fossify Camera and PhotonCamera. Fossify Camera does not support multiple lenses yet. PhotonCamera is nice because it does image processing and handles my camera lenses correctly but its UX is janky (on my device, with default settings, taking a photo takes 7-8 seconds and quitting the app before the process is complete loses the image), it's not on F-Droid and it doesn't automatically switch between lenses with zoom changes. There's also FreeDcam but I'm not a professional photographer and I'm certainly not going to buy a color calibration reference card that costs more than a hundred dollars.

It sucks that on my phone with /e/OS, instead of using a FOSS camera app, I resort to using Pixel's camera app with internet permission disabled to be able to take advantage of my hardware.

Re:Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android by codethief on Friday March 06, 2026 @06:25PM (#47282456)
If you have a Pixel and are willing to try GrapheneOS, you could also try their Camera app: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera
Re:Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS on Friday March 06, 2026 @06:48PM (#47282654)
There are builds of GCam which you can use as well, though if you don't want Google code on your device this isn't for you.

https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/

Re:Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android by rudhdb773b on Friday March 06, 2026 @06:57PM (#47282734)
If you're using GrapheneOS you can disable network access for GCam to reduce the risk that Google is spying on your photos.

The postprocessing is notably better with GCam, so it's worth running on GrapheneOS imo.

Re:Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android by VladVladikoff on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:14PM (#47284421)
This is the kind of stuff that just makes me ok with using an iPhone. What a headache.
Re:Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android by yencabulator on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:53AM (#47366125)
The proprietary camera app from Google is what you should be comparing your preferred walled garden to.

This post is talking about open source, and very little in the Apple ecosystem qualifies.