Camera support progress

[spaetz]

First of all you need kernel support for your camera device. There are currently some features which are not supported, like autofocus and some resolutions and framerate settings if we talk of the rear camera.

Then you need a user interface to handle the images that the kernel driver generates. Pinhole is at a very basic stage. It has to be developed further.

Cheese has been out there for some time, mostly used for webcams. I would say it is mature enough. It needs to be modified though in order to be able to handle the camera image on the pinephone (at least the last time I tried).

Things are not so easy as they may seem. : )

Exactly :-). Cameras on Linux work, if there are drivers for them. The pinephone camera was/is not one of them. Plus, the Linux ecosystem simply had no picture taking application (besides GNOME cheese, which is not really suitable yet). So, pioneering work needed on both these fronts...