Ultra-wide camera issues on third-party camera apps

J_nosFejes

Third-party camera apps cannot use the ultra-wide camera module.

I even bought the ProShot camera app for my previous phone, which I really like, but with my new phone (Nothing Phone (2a), I found that the ultra-wide camera is not even visible in the app. Is there a solution to this? Is the Nothing team planning something?

ShiveshGupta_2WuNhacrfu

Dear nothing ,

please find a way to enable ultra wide camera on third party apps like snapchat, instagram as it is basic thing for new generation phones and these social media apps

Mirko_ddd

ShiveshGupta_2WuNhacrfu the best camera app a phone can have is the one that comes with the phone itself.

There are 2 ways of doing camera apps on Android: one using camera2api that offers a lot of control over the hardware (but it’s very difficult, because you have to account for so many different hw components) and an easy one with CameraX (give me the best camera module so I can shot a photo).

To check if the camera is really visible to third party apps you should download Camera2 api probe

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airbeat.device.inspector

If all cameras are visible here it’s not a device fault, you just have to live with the fact that third party apps just want to shot a normal photo (like social apps) and complain to the single apps developer.

J_nosFejes

Mirko_ddd I knew it and I did it before I wrote this post here. The Camera2 api probe can’t see the ultra wide camera.

In theory You’re right, the best camer app on this phone is the main camera app, but in practice the Gcam port if I want to shot a photo or the Blackmagic camera for videos make much better results.

Mirko_ddd

J_nosFejes Is the Wide camera available in those apps?

J_nosFejes

Not realy, therefore the post …