@Anders_ASUS GCam was working on Pie. It was broken with the upgrade to Android 10. Modders already have it working on Android 10 on OnePlus and Xiaomi phones, but on ASUS Android 10, something is stopping the background processing of the image.
tl;dr: Something is wrong and it's only affecting ASUS users running Android 10.
I own and directed users to this device via
my GCam repo and telegram
channel, created and maintain the XDA threads for both the ZF6 and ROG2, and do my best to help by being an admin on the telegram group for this phone and a moderator on a (unofficial) sub-reddit. I'm probably biased, but since ASUS can't match Google's quality, I think GCam is important.
I understand that you can't directly work on this, but if the attitude is "everything is fine with our camera" and "we don't even know what GCam is", then I guess current and possible new owners should be warned.
But maybe I'm jumping into conclusions too quickly, maybe this Android 10 update was rushed due to some deadline and we should give ASUS some time to fix the issues. I still have hope that my Christmas/new year photos won't lack detail and be blurry, after all that's why I bought a new phone.
---
Edit: Some comments were posted while I was writing this one.
I hope ASUS and their employees don't go the "OnePlus way". For years they insisted they had a good camera and all criticism was an "attack" from hatters, not an opportunity to improve. Eventually they "saw the light", understood that they camera wasn't the best and started improving it.
To fix a problem, we must first admit there's a problem. The quality of ASUS camera app isn't the best. It doesn't retain as much detail, performance in low light is bad, and things like HDR Enhanced are even close to what brands like Google offer. It records 4K video, but it's limited to... 5 minutes (maybe because of the heat? I'm freezing with 4ºC, so I hope there's another reason for this limit).
Some of these problems could be bypassed if 3rd party cameras were better supported (not even talking about GCam). For example, not exposing 48MP to other apps is a mistake in my opinion. Forcing users to use another app to record 4k video for more than 5 minutes is another mistake.
