And for posterity by focus mode I meant that there’s a mode where you can manually control the focus of the camera, at least on my phone
Ah yes! It’s pretty cool that you have focus peaking too so you can see exactly where the focus is while you are dialing it in. Helpful for macro shots etc.
Sorry, I don’t actually know what you mean by “Focus mode”.
I doubt it’s technically FOSS given that it’s a mod of a proprietary camera app usually limited to the Pixel phone line. It is free though.
Yes and when viewing them, you can pan around with your phone or a VR headset like you were there!
If you’ve ever used Google Street View, it’s basically that.
Also, welcome to modded stuff. It’s sadly not always user friendly, and often requires further googling and reading to understand.
Despite this site’s best efforts to make recommendations (it’s a godsend given how many versions there are), I’ve still had to test a lot of different versions to find one that works well with my phone.
This link should help you find something for your phone model:
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/links/
The Camera2 API was introduced in Android 5 in 2014 I believe. It was a big deal at the time. Most phones should support it.
I didn’t know Xperia phones made rooting easy. Are they any good nowadays? They’re obviously really small market-share-wise.
Agreed. Google really does have a reputation for killing good things.
The main reason I still buy them is that it is one of the only brands that makes it easy to root your phone. Used to buy OnePlus but they’ve kind of abandoned their enthusiast community quite a few years ago.
Until recently, I think you could do it with the Street View app, but apparently that has now been discontinued. Not sure what you can do now.
What are you talking about? Genuinely?
What do you mean by “Citrons” that just means lemon in French and I’ve never heard it used in English.
This should be obvious, but even children will invent basic language. You only need to look as far as the deaf community for that, that always came up with pidgin languages even as they were forced to try and learn spoken language.
There’s an interesting free short documentary here: https://www.bslzone.co.uk/watch/history-deaf-education-1