One of the main things i miss about CMPA is the camera app, and now that it has HDR built-in I'm green with envy. Any way to just get the APK file? How would I port it over?
Hello
Is there any app working like Nokia Smart Camera for Android?
This is NOT my app. I did not develop it. I've tried tons of camera apps on Google Play as well as leaked manufacture cameras (Sony, Lenovo).
A good camera app with no gimmicks or fancy effects and filters: A Better Camera.
(if you are looking for gimmicky effects, fancy frames, pink hearts, kitty cats stickers, this is not the camera for you - see Camera Zoom FX, Camera Fx, Cymera, etc.)
The features I look for in basic camera app:
- Fast startup
- Easy to get to exposure compensation, and visible comp setting
- Composition grid (a plus)
- Touch to focus (surprisingly, not all 3rd party camera app has this)
- Thumbnail of picture last taken (Camera FV-5 doesn't have this)
- Exposure bracketing mode
- Visible flash on/off status
A Better Camera fits the bill and its interface usability rates high in my book. Close behind is the Lenovo Super Camera, stock AOSP camera, and Camera FV-5 (pay version). I can't say much about Focal because it keeps FC'ing. Another decent, thinking-photographer camera is Shot Control, but the viewer is too small for me.
Lenovo Super Camera loads up fast and has the swipe-to-gallery feature, but it's missing the visible status of exposure compensation setting. If you don't use that, then try it (v3.1.3 fails with FC on the very first load, but works fine afterward. v3.5 FCs all the time on my phone with Liquid Smooth ROM).
A Better Camera have additional pay features, but I don't need them. Between this and the stock AOSP/Lenovo Super camera, my basic camera needs are fulfilled when I don't have the more dedicated photography gear with me.
Thank you for your review.
We're continuing to improve A Better Camera. The upcoming changes will include faster start and "professional" features such as Exposure lock.
BTW, A Better Camera is open source, thus open for improvements from 3-rd party developers. Here is a thread about it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2484586
Since we have the Pixel 2 XL, we have all of the latest camera features like portrait mode, and AR stickers and such. However one of the things those apps enable that are not stock is RAW/DNG capture from Google Camera. Has anyone tried apktool on just the stock Google Camera app to enable it?
By now there is no Google app or mod that is able to do it.
In my Pixel XL 1st Gen I use ProShot. It lets you shoot photos on RAW+JPEG and it has a great design and very functional features (depth of field, manual focus, ISO, shutter speed, white balance, temperature, compression level on JPEG, etc.)
I would like to use Google Duo with the back wide camera + the front screen, but as far as I have seen, it is only available in the selfie mode of the photo camera app.
Is there any way to use it for video-calling? The under the screen camera quality is pretty horrendous, to be honest.
Thanks.