It looks like Google just locked out GrapheneOS users from the Pixel Camera app
https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-pixel-camera-app-3609484/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
It looks like Google just locked out GrapheneOS users from the Pixel Camera app

The new Pixel Camera 10.x update now requires Google Play Services, causing crashes on GrapheneOS and other de-Googled systems.

Android Authority

@Androidauth

Version number 68469120 still works. People can enter that one in #Aurorastore and hopefully it is still cached.

If your camera still works, install an app like https://github.com/ghmxr/apkextractor and extract the #APK, share with others!

Otherwise checkout #APKPure or #APKMirror

Look for version 9.9.106.77...

#Google #GrapheneOS #Pixel #Enshittification #GoogleCamera #LineageOS #Privacy #Android

GitHub - ghmxr/apkextractor: an android application using to extract app packages installed on the device

an android application using to extract app packages installed on the device - ghmxr/apkextractor

GitHub

@Androidauth

On the topic, #GrapheneOS allows to install the official PlayServices, Playstore and ServicesFramework.

These run with a compatibility tool called #GMSCompat and if this tool grants them the required privileged permissions.

So GCam should work fine, it just got a ton more invasive. #Enshittification

Apps run fine without elevated permissions, but #Google doesnt care to build their apps following the #Android security model. So they require crazy deep access to things, as they are too lazy to make a permission for that.

Meanwhile Google is locking down user app permissions further and further (breaking things like #Syncthing), while leaving out essential permissions like the ones GrapheneOS adds (network permission, storage scopes, contact scopes, sensors) to fuel their tracking business.

And systems without basically backdoors (proprietary system apps that bypass the Android app sandboxing model... by not using it) are not Play Certified and apps using #PlayIntegrity will refuse to run on them. FOR SECURITY!

They refuse to run on systems without backdoors!

(Little side tangent but this just strengthens how ironic Google is)