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.

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      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.