accessing hidden camera ids lens in open camera app
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Hello Mark,All,
is there a possibile workarond or approach to use hidden camera lens in android in open camera app.. Thanks for your help
If it isn't exposed by the system software, it can't be accessed by OC. Many new phones have customized Camera2API builds and settings that are not compatible with OC, so things are locked away for the default camera app on those devices.
but other camera apps are able to access it without any issue
.eg- motioncamera
I tried MotionCam Pro Trial on my Galaxy S24+ - whilst this sees the separate physical lenses, it doesn't seem to support them as a single logical camera (where one can zoom continually between lenses). This is one of the problems with exposing hidden lenses directly, you don't get the connection between physical and logical cameras.
Even if hidden cameras open, they may result in buggy behaviour including crashes and ANRs, leading to poorer performance on Google Play's metrics, and me wasting time trying to fix them (I'll have no idea if a crash or ANR report is coming from one of these hidden cameras or not).