#HowTo use 2 separate camera apps on #Android depending on if the phone is locked or not.

For the advanced hardware usage and mainly #jpegli compression I use #GoogleCamera on #GrapheneOS.

But that camera is very bloated and exposes a ton of attack surface that way.

Android asks twice which camera app to open when pressing the "double power button" shortcut, when locked and when unlocked. So you can set 2 different apps there.

This is not exposed in the settings and the dialog only appears after installing or uninstalling one of the possible camera apps.

As I had set #GCam as default apps on both invoking methods before, I quickly install #FossifyCamera, turn of the display, use the shortcut.

Android asks to unlock the screen, then the selection dialog appears.

I uninstall FossifyCamera again and do the same, dialog appears again, I select #GrapheneOSCamera there.

Done! Attack surface when screen is locked reduced.

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⚠️ PSA for those using the #GoogleCamera alias #GCam:

Starting with version 10 the GCam no longer works without Play Services installed. Latest version known to be working without them is 9.9.

If you are affected by this and don't want to get the update by accident you should blacklist the app in your app store such as #AuroraStore.

Further information:
https://github.com/lukaspieper/Gcam-Services-Provider/issues/190
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27362-google-camera-app-stopped-working/

#Android #GrapheneOS #CameraApp #PlayServices

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