Google camera app stopped working.

r_dac

Pavestone2734 Google Play Services

GrapheneOS

GrapheneOSuser74 Recent versions of Pixel Camera require Google Play services, so you'll need sandboxed Google Play if you want to use those.

r_dac

GrapheneOS In the future, might Google Play Services no longer be required if GOS can find a way to reinstate the shim technique GOS implemented for earlier versions of Gcam?

fid03

Pelican4231 Quote below is from AI/Claude, but I agree with it and links are valid

Links may be valid, but that doesn't mean that the AI's analysis is correct.

Pelican4231 Considering opening a new issue specifically about app store visibility across profiles.

Not sure what you're referring to here. Apps are installed system-wide. As an example, if you install Bitwarden (com.x8bit.bitwarden) v1.0 from within any profile, let's say from a secondary profile, Bitwarden v1.0 is actually installed system-wide. So if you then install a higher version of the same app, say Bitwarden v1.2, from within a different profile, let's say from Owner, Bitwarden will be upgraded to v1.2 system-wide.

Android's downgrade protection prevents you from downgrading to an older version, so If you installed v1.2 but want to go back to v1.0, you'll have to uninstall v1.2 in order to install v1.0 again. (In practice, you'll then have to uninstall v1.2 from within all the user profiles you installed it from).

Note that an app's app data is stored within user profiles.

GrapheneOSuser74

r_dac I hope the GOS team will find out some solution. Otherwise we will have to use google play services.

GrapheneOS

r_dac Nothing needs to be reinstated. It has a new dependency on a Google Play services API which it never did before. The API isn't at all specific to Pixel Camera. We do plan to add a workaround for that specific API, but Pixel Camera may start using a bunch of other Play services APIs. It's not a high priority since in general Google apps can be expected to depend on Google Play. Google Maps used to work without Google Play but eventually started depending on it more heavily, as did other Google apps. It's the general direction which can be expected to continue for their apps as they add more functionality to Google Play, particularly ways of working around legacy devices not getting OS updates which is why this font API is being used.

Lucario1829

GrapheneOSuser74 i kinda doubt gos devs will be super motivated to let you use gcam without play services given that from their perspecive, you shouldnt have it at all without them, but who knows

DeletedUser488

I’d like to use the GrapheneOS Camera app, but the sharpness of the photos is unfortunately disappointing.

Pavestone2734

Pavestone2734 but the fact that GOS camera does not open from the lock screen.

It did not open because ot was disabled in the lockscreen ssecurity settings menu in the owner profile. How that happened is a mistery to me. That setting is only accessible from the owner so I didn't find it at first. My bad.

GrapheneOS

The latest Pixel Camera releases can be used without sandboxed Google Play services again once you're on GmsCompatLib version 100. That's available as an App Store update to GrapheneOS version 2025102300 or later which is currently in the Beta channel. We added a shim implementation of the Google Play services font loading service which was what they started depending on in recent Pixel Camera releases.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27574-gmscompatlib-version-100-released

GrapheneOSuser74

GrapheneOS Thank you. Great work.

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