Hi GOS,
I just bought a Pixel 8 pro, and I am getting my feet wet with GrapheneOS. Thanks to the dev team for an amazing product. It's incredibly polished, and there is so much here that you folks got right.
My main focus is the camera app. I've read through numerous historical posts here (and also the Usage Guide) comparing the Graphene camera app and the Google camera app. I'm fully aware that they share the same hardware, and are utilizing the same APIs. The differences, in the past at least, seem to be somewhat overblown.
But on the Pixel 8 Pro, the UI differences seem to be considerable. The things I care about:
- a toggle for resolution. I anticipate shooting a lot of pictures on the 50 Megapixel setting, which effectively turns pixel binning off. On the other hand, I also take a lot of "notation" photos where I'm just trying to remember something for later, and 50 Megapixels is overkill. This resolution toggle is buried in a "Pro" settings menu in the Google Camera app. I would love it if Graphene Camera offered something similar, at the highest levels.
- Touch targets at the bottom of the preview for switching to different zoom lens levels. These are the "0.5x", "1x" , "5x" circles. I don't particularly want to pinch zoom all the time to switch lenses. I would prefer to get the native full uncropped image from the lens I've selected.
- Exposing a slider for ISO.
If there is concern about these additions bloating the interface (legit!), could these affordances be tucked into a "Pro" mode that folks could opt into?
Things I am not interested in: AI post-processing on Google's servers. Not talking about those features here. Please try to keep any discussion of that in another thread, thank you :)