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| author | Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> | 2023-04-12 01:05:46 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> | 2023-04-12 01:05:46 -0400 |
| commit | dc9cb61c0da0ac8332a60b7a1ab467e0667375a0 (patch) | |
| tree | b7666d82c9ba190b48f3515dc1a057aadd4def9a /static/usage.html | |
| parent | 4a3da68dcfbb67e5255c96e3ba30815d1d72188a (diff) | |
GXP access toggle for Google Camera on pantah
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diff --git a/static/usage.html b/static/usage.html index b863fef7..e9cc4425 100644 --- a/static/usage.html +++ b/static/usage.html @@ -728,24 +728,11 @@ <p>Google Camera can take full advantage of the available cameras and image processing hardware as it can on the stock OS and does not require GSF or - sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS.</p> - - <p>On 7th generation Pixels, Google Camera is a privileged app on the stock - Pixel OS and has privileged access to Tensor SoC hardware acceleration - unavailable to regular apps. Since it's a regular sandboxed app on GrapheneOS, - it has to use more software processing. It captures photos just as quickly but - takes longer to process them after capturing. It doesn't lose any features or - any image quality from lack of privileged access. Since several photos can be - queued up for processing, this is only noticeable if you try to quickly take - multiple pictures without a couple seconds for it to process them. One special - case is Portrait mode on the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro which requires a lot of - time to process each picture without the privileged hardware acceleration and - is therefore very noticeable because after a few shots, you'll need to wait a - while for the slow software processing. Google has acknowledged this as an - issue and is working on improving it. There have been major improvements in - recent Google Camera releases. We're considering providing a toggle for users - to choose to give direct GXP hardware acceleration access to Google - Camera.</p> + sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS. Direct TPU and GXP access by Google apps + including Google Camera is controlled by a toggle added by GrapheneOS and + doesn't provide them with any additional access to data. The toggle exists for + attack surface reduction. Every app can use the TPU and GXP via standard APIs + including the Android Neural Networks API and Camera2 API regardless.</p> <p>We aim to reduce the benefits of Google Camera compared to GrapheneOS Camera over time, especially on Pixels. Many features of Google Camera will |