[Q] How install the SGS2's camera app ?

[nicollivier]

Hi everybody,

Before the Nexus S, I'd the Samsung Jet, nice phone with a very good camera application, especially the panorama option.
Unfortunately, on the nexus the camera app is really simple, and I can not find a good application with panorama option.
So I've tried to install directly the camera.apk coming from the SGS2 on my phone, but it seems to be impossible :-(

Anyone knows how I can get it?!
I suppose that it's impossible to install the ROM of the SGS2 directly on the nexus that there are both Samsung's products....

Thanks

Nico

 

[zephiK]

You can't. The Galaxy S2 uses TouchWiz.
TouchWiz 4 needs to be ported onto the Nexus S in order for the camera to work.

This is a PURE Google device.

 

[nicollivier]

Thanks for your quick answer

So I need to have TouchWiz 4, if I want to install the camera app....
But I though it was just a launcher, no?!
=> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937465

 

[stavros86]

You need the touchwiz framework not only launcher which is not ported

 

[zephiK]

Thanks for your quick answer

So I need to have TouchWiz 4, if I want to install the camera app....
But I though it was just a launcher, no?!
=> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937465

No. That was not ported, that was just taken from the ROM and put on here. It was just a coincidence that the launcher doesn't rely on the Framework.

All of the Samsung code apps like Phone/Contacts/Browser/Camera/etc all use code from something known as a framework. Without that framework, it won't function. And the framework is specifically designed for THAT particular phone and won't work on any other phone.

The framework is also closed source. So it becomes complicated to port. Is it doable? Yeah.
Would I count on a dev to port it and make it fully working and fast? No.

If you dislike the stock camera, look for alternatives. MIUI Camera (apart of the MIUI framework, Camera 360 (app), etc.

 

[nicollivier]

Thanks a lot for your comments.

I've already tried others version of camera but I didn't find yet the good version.