Secure Camera
June 20, 2024
More About Secure Camera
The app has an in-app gallery and video player for images/videos taken with it. It currently opens an external editor activity for the edit action.
Zooming via pinch to zoom or the zoom slider will automatically make use of the wide angle and telephoto cameras on Pixels and other devices supporting it. It will become more broadly supported over time.
By default, continuous auto focus, auto exposure and auto white balance are used across the whole scene. Tapping to focus will switch to auto focus, auto exposure and auto white balance based on that location. The focus timeout setting determines the timeout before it switches back the default mode. The exposure compensation slider on the left allows manually tuning exposure and will automatically adjust shutter speed, aperture and ISO. Further configuration / tuning will be provided in the future.
The QR scanning mode only scans within the scanning square marked on the screen. The QR code should be aligned with the edges of the square but can have any 90 degree orientation. Non-standard inverted QR codes are fully supported. It's a very quick and high quality QR scanner able to easily scan very high density QR codes from Pixels. Every 2 seconds, it will refresh auto focus, auto exposure and auto white balance on the scanning square. It has full support for zooming in and out. The torch can be toggled with the button at the bottom center. The auto toggle at the bottom left can be used to toggle scanning for all supported barcode types. Alternatively, you can select which barcode types it should scan via the menu at the top. It only scans QR codes by default since that provides quick and reliable scanning. Most other types of barcodes can result in false positives. Each enabled type will slow down the scanning and will make it more prone to false positives especially with difficult to scan barcodes such as a dense QR code.
Camera permission is the only one that's required. Images and videos are stored via the Media Store API so media/storage permissions aren't required. The Microphone permission is needed for video recording by default but not when including audio is disabled. Location permission is only needed if you explicitly enabling location tagging, which is an experimental feature.
By default, EXIF metadata is stripped for captured images and only includes the orientation. Stripping metadata for videos is planned but not supported yet. Orientation metadata isn't stripped since it's fully visible from how the image is displayed so it doesn't count as hidden metadata and is needed for proper display. You can toggle off stripping EXIF metadata in the More Settings menu opened from the settings dialog. Disabling metadata stripping will leave timestamp, phone model, exposure configuration and other metadata. Location tagging is disabled by default and won't be stripped if you enable it.
Latest Version
68
June 20, 2024
GrapheneOS
Media
Android
3,421,605
Free
app.grapheneos.camera.play
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User Reviews
Gökdeniz Küçükali
1 year ago
Poco X3 NFC Pros: Clean UI, open source Easy data handling (EXIF auto-delete, QR scan) Fast focus, good autoexposure Cons: Lower image quality despite configuring for quality. (vs stock & Open Camera. images look blurry when zoomed in and less detailed) Limited configuration (ISO, white balance etc.) No 60fps video Lack of camera modes like hdr, night, portrait if vendor doesn't ship camx extensions. 5 star bcs foss. doc scanner, panorama, burst and switching cams during recording can be added
Hocipo
11 months ago
All the needed settings for photo and video, fast and qualitative, plus an advanced qr and barcode reader. I hope to see more photo and video options in the future.
Acct Play
1 year ago
Like the simplicity. Video mode freezes. Doesn't work. 1+ 7 pro.
Brent Barnhill (TheGideonMan)
1 year ago
I love the built in way to QR scan. The video recording is equally easy to use. Much better than the stock camera app and without ads and trackers!
A C
1 year ago
Amazing! Opens up, and ready to use, so quickly compared to stock camera on Moto G8 power. My new default camera app. Thank you!
Gavin Moseley
1 year ago
How do I roll back the April update? It's opens but stopped it using the camera.
Eduard B.
2 years ago
I really like where this app is going, it has great potential! Old comment: One important improvement point for me would be to support the telephoto camera on my Galaxy S22+ - 3x photos seem to be using digital zoom instead, judging by the quality of the photo. One nit-pick: the zoom slider is not linear, it goes smoothly from 1x to 3x, but then from 3x to 10x the transition is quite abrupt. Update: OK, it seems like if I zoom in a bit more, until 3.1x, it switches, so there's a small UI bug
Zack Tell
1 year ago
Way better than the standard app I had pre installed and is faster at focusing just great I am actually impressed
FaiZaan (FaiZ)
1 year ago
Unfortunately it doesn't have mirror selfie feature which makes selfies look bad.. please include this feature..
Hayden Foley
1 year ago
Works fine but a little buggy. I will take photos sometimes and the app crashes leaving me with half a photo and the other half blacked out. Not the biggest issue when compared to file size. File size can vary between 300kb amd 13mb. I've tried adjusting the image quality to reduce the file size but hasn't achieved anything. If there is a way to reduce the file size that would be amazing otherwise I'm going to have to look elsewhere. No there are no updates for my device it is fully up to date
JE CJ
2 years ago
A solid camera app. Fast autofocus, reliable autoexposure. (My default camera app takes ages to focus.) The settings and adjustments are intuitive and easy to find, and cover all the basics of still camera and video. There is an option to remove EXIF info should one need it. No problem saving the files. No-frills and intelligently-designed. Ad-free as well.
Backup 3
1 year ago
Simple great app, been using it awhile now. I only wish it had touch screen capture option and not limited to shutter button only. Attempting to take selfie is a nightmare
Bailey Burch
1 year ago
Poorly optimized, fps are low while moving around in low light, however the pictures themself come out very nice Haven't tried good lighting yet
Recovery E-mail
1 year ago
Thank You For keeping it simple, stock-Like Useful & Secure. Just Replaced My inbuilt Cam With This One! & Though it does not seems to provide some features like Portrait Mode, Night Mode ETC, Still Its Good enough for basic Camera Related works. I would like to request the Dev to enable some more useful features as mentioned above by default for most of the people.I know its completely possible if the developer wants! Edit - MY DEVICE SUPPORTS CAM 2 API STILL COULD NOT SEE MENTIONED FEATURES!!
rose napierski
1 year ago
Unfortunately the Video mode is not reliable. I thought I was filming my niece today but the 500+mb MP4 is not playable by the phone or QuickTime/VLC. The camera has error messages about the storage not existing (SD card) but it's there with plenty of space. There are no useful error messages. The video works again after clearing app storage but the incorrect error still appears. The response from the developer is not good or useful customer service.
Nydeaya Dwyer
1 year ago
OKAY. Now i honestly hate most camera apps because of ads, but this is perfect no ads of so far that i used it. The pictures come out so clear, it shows every flaw in the imange or in the person in a picture and thats so perfect. Its a great app,
Tony Wartooth
1 year ago
Fantastic option for a phone camera app. Would it be at all possible to get the shutter button and some over the other feature buttons on to the black bar on the bottom? Its only like that in 4:3 and not 16:9. Their all over the screen\image of what you're taking a picture of. Thank you for the app none the less. Update: knocked a star off because there was an update and the controls are still on the image not the empty black space below it. Ill change my review back when you implement it then.
Commenter of Comments
2 years ago
Not as fancy as stock yet, but it still takes a good picture, and QR scanning is a great convenience. Being able to adjust quality so thoroughly is highly appreciated, file sizes can get absurd and stock doesn't go low enough. If you want a libre camera app, it's either this or Open Camera, and I'm using this. Edit: Reworded a little, was unclear about my appreciation of quality adjusting
Ethan West
3 years ago
This is the first open source camera with truly great image quality and user interface. The only missing feature I would consider basic is 60fps for 1080p video (at least on my Pixel 4a). Most people don't realise the amount of private info stored in their photos, and this app gives that control and safety back to the individual. Highly recommended.
Azhar P
1 year ago
Gotta be honest, I don't see the privacy aspect of this app or what it's supposed to be doing, but all things considered, I don't care much because ever since my phone's stock camera app became unusable, all I wanted was a simple and straightforward alternative and this is the closest thing I have found. Though I have a single complaint. Photos taken isn't very sharp and sometimes blurry. Looking through the camera on the app, image looks crisp. It's only when the photo is taken it got "soft"
