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Please to Test my apk at google play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.jakub1.photo
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Jakub wrote:

Please to Test my apk at google play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.jakub1.photo

The app you linked is called Photo by developer Bober Jakub.

It's apparently a simple photography tool that lets you take pictures with front or back cameras, add GPS location data, adjust resolution, use flash,
and even automate photo-taking. The developer asks users if a QR code
reader should be added. The developer states no data is collected and
therefore no data can be shared with third parties.

The November 25, 2025 updated add the GPS EXIF data tags.
Website: jakub1.pl
Email: jak74@interia.pl
Location: Gdynia, Poland

In the future, I'd compare it to "Open Camera", but it's not ready (yet)
for that since Open Camera is an existing long-standing camera app and this
is new.
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Jakub, 2025-12-02 10:57:

Please to Test my apk at google play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.jakub1.photo

I understand, that you want to explore app development. But there are
plenty of Camera apps - also open source ones like this:

<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera>

<https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/>

Source: <https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code/ci/master/tree/>
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Arno Welzel wrote:

Please to Test my apk at google play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.jakub1.photo

I understand, that you want to explore app development. But there are
plenty of Camera apps - also open source ones like this: <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera> <https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/>
Source: <https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code/ci/master/tree/>

When I had tested, oh, I don't know, scores or more of free camera apps,
the one thing I'd like to see in Jakub's camera app is the ability to
switch between flash & no flash in a simple on:off:on:off:on:off toggle.

It has been years since I've tested all known free camera apps, but that's
the one feature that I wanted most in a camera app. A simple flash on/off.

Other than that, the next thing I want in a camera app is a simple button
that sets the camera to a known set of settings instantly without fuss. Far
too many times I find myself digging into the settings to reset something.

But back to the flash button, it's shocking to me that a simple on:off
flash is so hard to find in a camera app. Nobody thinks about the GUI. :(
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Marian, 2025-12-03 00:01:

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But back to the flash button, it's shocking to me that a simple on:off
flash is so hard to find in a camera app. Nobody thinks about the GUI. :(

I think one issue is the number of controls in the UI - when adding more controls, it gets harder to use since you may accidentally tap a button.
That may be the reason why even the Google camera app in Pixel phones
hides the flash option in a submenu.

But otherwise - since Open Camera is open source, everyone is free to
add this in the UI and create a pull request for it.
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Arno Welzel wrote:

But back to the flash button, it's shocking to me that a simple on:off
flash is so hard to find in a camera app. Nobody thinks about the GUI. :(

I think one issue is the number of controls in the UI - when adding more controls, it gets harder to use since you may accidentally tap a button.
That may be the reason why even the Google camera app in Pixel phones
hides the flash option in a submenu.

But otherwise - since Open Camera is open source, everyone is free to
add this in the UI and create a pull request for it.

I never disagree with any logically sensible viewpoint, which is that
camera apps start to get complicated and then even easy stuff is hard to
do.

But the flash...

The flash...

Every camera app has a flash.

It's shocking to me it's not just on:off for the controls.

IMHO, it should be off, and then when you tap it, it should be on.
If you tap it again, it should go off. And if you tap again, it goes on.

Shockingly, that's NOT how most flash controls work.
Do you know of any camera app whose flash works the way I want it to work?

This is my main recommendation to the OP.
Set up the flash to be single touch binary.

If it's on, then a tap shuts it off.
If it's off, then a tap turns it on.

What's so hard about that?
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Arlen,

If it's on, then a tap shuts it off.
If it's off, then a tap turns it on.

What's so hard about that?

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Big_Red_Button

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On 2025-12-05 03:33, Marian wrote:

IMHO, it should be off, and then when you tap it, it should be on.
If you tap it again, it should go off. And if you tap again, it goes on.

Mine is tap flash, then choose auto, off, or on. It makes perfect sense
to me.
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Carlos E.R. wrote:

IMHO, it should be off, and then when you tap it, it should be on.
If you tap it again, it should go off. And if you tap again, it goes on.

Mine is tap flash, then choose auto, off, or on. It makes perfect sense
to me.

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for explaining how your camera app flash works, which is how most
work, so I agree with your characterization of how most app flashes work.

My point is to the developer who is asking us to test his camera app.
My point is for him to strongly consider an on:off:on:off:on:off flash.

The way I'd recommend he set it up, is he'd have in "Settings" a switch for
SimpleFlashGUI=yes/no

If the user wants the simple flash GUI described above, they set it to yes.
If they want the GUI you described (which most camera apps do), they leave
it at the default.

Remember, I'm one of the few people on this ng who have tested every single free adfree camera app known to the group, where that's the one feature I
found lacking in almost all of them.

It's why I suggested it to the OP who is a developer of a camera app.
He can add it and then his camera app is DIFFERENTIATED from the others.

Everybody wins.
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Marian, 2025-12-05 03:33:

[...]

But the flash...

The flash...

Every camera app has a flash.

It's shocking to me it's not just on:off for the controls.

Because there are multiple options for it:

- off
- always on
- automatic if needed

And sometimes also additional features like filling flash or open or
closing flash. When you are used to "real" cameras, you know, that a
flash is not just a simple "on/off".
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Arno Welzel wrote:

It's shocking to me it's not just on:off for the controls.

Because there are multiple options for it:

- off
- always on
- automatic if needed

And sometimes also additional features like filling flash or open or
closing flash. When you are used to "real" cameras, you know, that a
flash is not just a simple "on/off".

Oh, I get it. I worked in the Silicon Valley on software that costs
millions per seat, so I'm fully aware how software developers think.

Since I have tested all the known free camera apps for Android, I'm well
aware of how the flash GUI works because very few people actually think
about reducing clicks.

All I'm suggesting to the developer is he have the option of a "simple"
mode where the flash goes on or off or back on and off with each tap.

The default can still be the multiple-tap mode to turn a switch on. :)
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