@h3artbl33d@exquisite.social thank you! I think the results would be similar. I’ll try to perform some tests in the coming days, taking the same photo using both the apps. Let’s see how they will perform.
That would be lovely. AFAIK Gcam is more feature complete but the results should be the same. My (personal) beef with Gcam is that it is obtained through the Play Store.
Which is okay, but I have no desire to run even Sandboxed Google Play in my main, daily driver profile. And switching to a secondary to take a photo seems a lot of trouble.
How do you go about this? Everything within one user (the owner profile) or more segmented?
@h3artbl33d I’m keeping all the google services apps in the Private space, so it’s just a fingerprint away. I have three users at the moment: the owner, the private space (with Google Apps, Android Auto as I need it from time to time, etc) and another user. I find this approach quite good as I can enable the work user without switching, just enabling that space.
@stefano@bsd.cafe @h3artbl33d Have you checked out the new Private Space feature? I‘ve seen them recommend people use that instead of the Work profile now, as it‘s supposedly more convenient.
@stefano@bsd.cafe @h3artbl33d@exquisite.social Ah, nice.
I’ll get back onto GrapheneOS soon and I’m excited to use that feature to hopefully also separate out the Google things.
The ability to just shut them down completely, when not needed, is really nice.
@jana@social.jsteuernagel.de @h3artbl33d@exquisite.social it is! For me, this has been a game changer.
Switch to a new profile can be time consuming - so I wasn’t using that feature. The private space, “just one finger away”, is there and ready to start as soon as you need it. More, I’ve set it to lock automatically after 5 minutes, so I don’t need to stop it.
@h3artbl33d@exquisite.social gcam on the Pixel
@stefano@bsd.cafe
Wow! Amazing photo. Do you feel like you should be able to get the same result with the GrapheneOS Camera app? It does use the same CameraX API IIRC.
@h3artbl33d@exquisite.social thank you! I think the results would be similar. I’ll try to perform some tests in the coming days, taking the same photo using both the apps. Let’s see how they will perform.
@stefano@bsd.cafe
That would be lovely. AFAIK Gcam is more feature complete but the results should be the same. My (personal) beef with Gcam is that it is obtained through the Play Store.
Which is okay, but I have no desire to run even Sandboxed Google Play in my main, daily driver profile. And switching to a secondary to take a photo seems a lot of trouble.
How do you go about this? Everything within one user (the owner profile) or more segmented?
@h3artbl33d I’m keeping all the google services apps in the Private space, so it’s just a fingerprint away. I have three users at the moment: the owner, the private space (with Google Apps, Android Auto as I need it from time to time, etc) and another user. I find this approach quite good as I can enable the work user without switching, just enabling that space.
@stefano@bsd.cafe @h3artbl33d Have you checked out the new Private Space feature? I‘ve seen them recommend people use that instead of the Work profile now, as it‘s supposedly more convenient.
@jana@social.jsteuernagel.de @h3artbl33d exactly - I wrote work profile but meant private space 🙂
Corrected.
@stefano@bsd.cafe @h3artbl33d@exquisite.social Ah, nice.
I’ll get back onto GrapheneOS soon and I’m excited to use that feature to hopefully also separate out the Google things.
The ability to just shut them down completely, when not needed, is really nice.
@jana@social.jsteuernagel.de @h3artbl33d@exquisite.social it is! For me, this has been a game changer.
Switch to a new profile can be time consuming - so I wasn’t using that feature. The private space, “just one finger away”, is there and ready to start as soon as you need it. More, I’ve set it to lock automatically after 5 minutes, so I don’t need to stop it.