TIL something utterly cursed about the camera app on my Android phone: the preview is cropped differently from the actual photo it saves.
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I dunno who the incompetent designer behind this was, but like, this could literally get someone killed - if photographer is intentionally keeping someone/something out of the frame and that content inadvertently leaks into an image that gets shared.
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And this would not happen if you actually had a diverse team exposed to diverse threats working on your product.
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It's likely a fork of the Qualcomm Snapdragon camera app. Qualcomm has a bunch of apps they essentially release as tech demos to show off SoC features.
CAF apps tend to have some strange design decisions, and mostly aren't well maintained. Not really built for use by end users.
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It's whatever Lineage shipped, presumably forked from some AOSP thing but I don't actually know. It's infuriating that all this stuff isn't entirely device-independent.
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AOSP Camera is device-independent and decently maintained. LineageOS has a fork of SnapdragonCamera and ships that for most devices. I think it's up the device maintainers. As far as I know, those Snapdragon apps are essentially tech demos for vendors to use as a reference.
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Yeah, github.com/LineageOS/andr is a fork of SnapdragonCamera from CAF. I think their usual gallery app is based on SnapdragonGallery.
I'm not a big fan of CAF. Curious if the CAF Snapdragon Chromium fork is still developed. Did some insane things and lagged way behind updates...
CAF has *insane* scope creep beyond hardware support. I wish they'd focus more on contributing to upstream projects. Part of why it gets used is the dearth of high quality open source apps. Open Camera needs some serious modernization + modern hardware capability support.
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