Meet Focal, the New Camera App For CyanogenMod

A few days ago, the CyanogenMod teamed teased a new project named Nemesis, a series of planned improvements to the user interface. An anonymous reader writes with news of the first part: a new camera application designed to replace the neglected stock Android camera app. From the article: "As cameras and camera software becomes an increasingly important part of our mobile experience, a great photography experience on your smartphone can make all the difference. The CyanogenMod project has decided to take smartphone photography a lot more seriously with the release of Focal, and all new camera app for CM users everywhere." Android Police also has an early look with screenshots. The menu system in particular looks a lot nicer to use than the current cumbersome interface to white balance/exposure/scene settings. Focal should be merged into nightly releases soon.

Comments

i like cyanogenmod..but...

[wbr1]

I own 4 smartphones of various age. None are officially supported. They all have unofficial ports in various stages, but guess what? It's the camera that is normally broken due to no drivers from the manufacturer. This is a deal breaker for me as I use my camera for work daily.

I wish it were otherwise.

Re:i like cyanogenmod..but...

[h4rr4r]

Sounds like you made some pretty poor choices.
Here is a list of devices with that sort of stuff available:
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers

Buying devices without drivers available is voting with your dollars for this to continue. If you want it to stop you have to take some responsibility.

Re:i like cyanogenmod..but...

[h4rr4r]

This hardware does not support OSS, if you wanted OSS you should have bought hardware that supported it.

By what magic is OSS going to work when drivers are missing and there is no released documentation?

Re:i like cyanogenmod..but...

[knarf]

That is a silly response to a sensible answer. If you don't understand why, please think about it for a moment or two. Think about the open software development model in relation to closed, proprietary hardware.

Still don't understand why your answer does not make sense?

Here is a black box. The box can be made to produce sound. I'm not going to tell you how to prod it to make sound because that is my very own secret. Now you make it produce sound.

What? No sound? Why not?

What do you mean 'no idea how to make it produce sound'? Why do you people always give the same response? I ask you to do a simple thing and this is what I get.

Now you understand?

Re:i like cyanogenmod..but...

[mutube]

"catty calling the cattle black"

Whaaaaaat.....?

This has to win an award for the most mis-heard idiom ever.

Re:i like cyanogenmod..but...

[crtreece]

You should have returned Cyanogenmod to the place of purchase and demanded a 100% refund due to in not including the functionality it claimed to include.

I must be getting old.

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

I thought FOCAL was the language of the first lunar lander game.

DMCA takedown

[tuppe666]

I was going to make flippant remark as I am not in love with CyanogenMod music player (I am a vanilla Music Player Fan). I like CyanogenMod because it is basically stock Android, and this is another deviation from that.

Whay I didnt realise is CyanogenMod has received a takedown Notice under DMCA from DxO Labs SA https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2013-03-12-DxO-Labs.md for allegedly using its code unlicensed.

Better article here http://www.androidcentral.com/cyanogenmod-focal-camera-app-nemesis looks great..shame about that icon.

Re:DMCA takedown

[Crudely_Indecent]

You might change your tune after experiencing a vendor modified version of Android followed by a Cyanogenmod pure version of Android on the same phone. The difference is night and day. Sure, the vendors add a few snazzy UI features - but nothing that actually enhances the phone. In fact, most vendor versions suffer glitches and slowdowns that are maddening to someone who knows they shouldn't be there.

Since installing Cyanogenmod the first time, I now shop for phones that are capable of running it. The first thing I do with my new phones is install CM because I'm used to the speed and consistency of the interface.

On top of that, CM stays close to the current Android release - whereas vendors are usually far behind, some never updating at all.

My wife and I have the same phone (GS3) and she doesn't want me to make any modifications to her phone. I get better battery life and have fewer problems with CM than she has with the vendor version her phone shipped with. On top of that, the vendor version doesn't allow tethering to be turned on unless we pay extra on our plan - my CM version has no such restriction.

Re:Excellent

[chmod a x mojo]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that was an Android change. My Nexus10 tablet is like that, all you should have to do to get to the gallery is swipe the screen from right > left in the camera application and it should bring up the gallery and last shot. It's not exactly intuitive to find that " feature", I only found it on accident.