For the past year I've been taking a lot of pictures with my Oneplus 5 with LineageOS and OpenCam and it has served me adequately to this point. Now I splurged for a new Oneplus 9 phone. It's got way too much storage, ram and power for my need but most importantly it has official LineageOS support and the camera quality is much better.
The thing is that if you don't use the official OnePlus camera app you get only a quarter of the megapixels from the main camera. So 48 megapixies goes to 12. I'm not sure if I need all those pixels for taking photos that people mostly watch on a tiny screen and compressed to hell. There's also going to be prints from my pictures on my photography gallery (coming in 2024) so this is where the quality matters the most I guess.
One option for better photos on LineageOS is to get a modified Gcam apk: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/p/google-camera-oneplus-9/
and this would require having Gcam services: https://github.com/lukaspieper/Gcam-Services-Provider
Seems like there wouldn't be a huge privacy issue either as the gcam services is faking only the absolute necessary Apis to use Gcam without Play Services. It doesn't require storage access or internet access etc. And I could also disable internet access for Gcam app in android settings.
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