Earlier this week, which has so far been completely insane, we showed you the Moto X's upcoming camera UI. Minimalist and clean, Motorola's new camera isn't the most powerful one among its competitors by far, but it is quite nice nonetheless. Moto is shipping the same camera with the new DROIDs (Ultra, MAXX, and Mini) as well.
The draggable UI doesn't get in the way, and one-tap photo snaps make it very simple to use. A quick capture double-flick wrist gesture is the cherry on top, but, unfortunately and unsurprisingly, it only works with Motorola's hardware.
A lot of you have been asking us to release the MotCamera APK, and today we're going to grant this wish. There are a few drawbacks, so I don't know if you're going to start using it as a daily driver just yet - it's more so you can play around with the interface and get a good feel for it. Maybe it'll even convince you to buy the Moto X when it comes out?
What works
- The camera runs fine.
- Tutorial.
- Single shots.
- Burst shots.
- Video recording.
- Front-facing camera toggle.
- Swipe to open settings.
- Swipe to open gallery, which asks which gallery app you want to launch.
- Touch to focus toggle.
- Flash mode toggle.
- Shutter sound toggle.
- Geo-tag toggle.
What doesn't work
- Double-flick wrist gesture to launch the camera anytime.
- Panorama mode currently crashes. It seems to be missing a required class, and I'm not sure whether we'd be able to fix it or not. If we can, I'll post an updated APK. For the interested, the error log is here.
- HDR mode is disabled and cannot be enabled.
- Slow-motion mode is disabled and cannot be enabled.
The APK was tested on a Nexus 4 running android 4.3 and a Note II running Android 4.1.2. The results were identical.
Screenshots and sample photos
Screenshots:
Some photo samples:
Left: flash on; Right: flash off
Left: touch-to-focus disabled; Right: touch-to-focus enabled
Download
Download and flash like a regular APK.
Note: The APK installs separately from your stock camera unless you're using a Motorola device where the camera's package name is also com.motorola.camera. In that case, it probably won't install due to mismatched signatures. If you're rooted, you can freeze the existing camera with something like Titanium Backup, flash this one, play around with it, then revert.
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