Secure camera is really good. However I find google camera works better in low light with fast moving object, like in door photo of moving pet etc.
For my use case, I have to install GCAM on my main profile, since my wife like to use it; and I don’t want to go through the hassel of transferring photos between profile. But of course, I denied internet access and setup storage scope for GCAM.
But that left me wondering, am I just making my life harder by using secure camera as default? Since it seems that although secure camera is pretty good, it is not as optimized as GCAM. I already have GCAM on my phone, so I cannot think of any privacy benefit by not setting it as the default.
What do you think? do you use GCAM or secure camera, and why?
I’ve got the Tensor chip on mine so I want to leverage the stock Google Camera’s performance. I downloaded it directly from the Play Store, and it is the smoothest out of all the other options I’ve tried from F-Droid (Stock GOS camera app, Libre Camera and Open Camera). I use GCAM without network permission (I know I know, this doesn’t mean it can’t talk to Google Play Services), and then use Hail with Shizuku to “freeze” all the Google sandboxing stuff like Services, Playstore, Framework, etc.
Do you use Shizuku with ADB on boot? AFAIK graphene os don’t support root.
I also doubt graphene maintainer will ever recommend to use Shizuku, but it is your phone your choice.
No root, I keep my bootloader locked. The frozen apps stay frozen even if you turn off wireless debugging and disconnect Shizuku. It’s a bit annoying but I’m used to that long workflow. Other than that, as the Graphene maintainers recommend, I don’t keep Shizuku or wireless debugging running at all times.