Unfortunately, there’s been no word on making this available to users of deGoogled Operating Systems like Lineage OS, /e/OS, iodeOS, CalyxOS, DivestOS, etc.
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Install fails (the package installer just crashes)
From other forum posts it appears that the package name of the Fairphone camera (com.fp.camera) is different to the camera app I have currently installed, so it doesn’t appear like something I can fix…
Even if I did get it to install, this thread shows that tinkering is required, requiring an adb command and a custom APK to preview images. I’m really hoping for an official fix on Fairphone’s side…
ok, good to know. The only FP4 I have at hand here runs Fairphone OS, so I could not test the apk. – Well, I did try on two FP3s (one running Fairphone OS, the other /e/OS) and got an incompatibility message, but given the FP3 is indeed a different device, I took that as not so surprising …
Seems like they shipped a new library that’s obviously (probably) not in any of the custom ROMs yet. I’ll retest once Calyx pulls in the latest blobs. If that doesn’t fix it the other possibilty would be to create a Magisk module that bundles that library, but I’m moving away from Magisk so I’d like to avoid that.
I’m not sure what you mean, having a working camera app doesn’t depend on the package name. I have several camera apps installed that are all fully functional.
The adb command is a one-time thing and the workaround for Google Photos shouldn’t be required anymore since the latest FPCamera removed that requirement (tested on a FP4 running stock FPOS and the app now works just fine with Google Photos deactivated).
In case people don’t trust my upload (which is absolutely fair), the .apk can also be extracted from the latest factory images since those are already available.
Has anyone ever tried to install the previous official FP camera app on a custom rom? Did this ever work? I’m curious, never thought of it.
I know that with pixels and grapheneOS you actually can install the official pixel cam app from the sandboxed play store, with all functionality. That’s pretty neat.
It would be great if Fairphone made their Apps available on F-Droid or at least the Play Store, so users of /e/ and other custom roms would have the possibility to get the Fairphone apps (via aurora). Right now, the only Fairphone app I can see is the “fairbuds” app.
The previous version mostly worked just fine with the workarounds mentioned before, but there weren’t a lot of reasons to use it since it was worse than most of the alternatives (especially GCam).
Now it might actually be usable, I kind of like the more muted / natural colors it produces.
You don’t even need real play services for that, the official GCam works on other ROMs (like CalyxOS) as well if you have a Pixel (and probably microG enabled).
Here is a good tutorial how to extract fpcamera app and other things from original fp images.
I already brought the missing native library topic to the calyx matrix chat.
And it looks like they will include that library.
They already added TP29 to there repository, but I hope the library will be included before next release. I am eager to test the new camera app.
Or is there some other easy way to install the new camera app?
Great to see @inubu you have informed CalyxOS and they already have updated their repo
I am confused though, when this patch is incorporated in the next update of non-Google OS (such as CalyxOS), will it improve any camera app installed or is it targeting only the FP Camera app?
Thanks to the fairphone team for the update and their different philosophy.
But I haven’t understand how to get the update? I’m running /e/ on my FP4. Can I get the update too? And how?
Thanks for helping!
Good News for CalyxOS users and also a little downer.
They working on getting the new stock FP camera app to work.
Unfortunately they didn’t add “libtctcameraalgo_jni.tct.so” to there recent 4.5.1 release. It’s in beta now and I installed it right away.
I was hopping to install the new FP camera app. But I guess only adding the library is not the solution. But I’m happy that CalyxOS invest some of there resources.
Old FP camera app is still working great, except some features are still missing, like before. I just did some quick tests.
Switching between the two main cameras is much faster. Taking pictures seems to be faster too.
I don’t see any improvements in the pictures. They are good, but not different than before the firmware update.
I use the following apps:
OpenCamera 1,52
CalyxOS Stock (camera2)
GCam sgcam 8.5 (only 8MP)
FPcamera 2.0.039
There might be some details I missed. Please write your experiences.