0.5x is a bare Camera2 session, so CameraX never saw the flash setting and the ultra-wide still came off unlit. The native module now reads FLASH_INFO_AVAILABLE off the lens, maps off/auto/on to CONTROL_AE_MODE plus FLASH_MODE_SINGLE, and starts an AE precapture so the HAL can meter the flash before the frame. The viewfinder hands its flashMode down beside the shutter, with a Zap control that only appears where a unit exists.
Library CROP now resizes the band in photo fractions, the way FREE always
did, instead of panning a re-scaled photo under a screen-sized rectangle:
what the band encloses is the export, with no zoom transform left to undo
and no aspect that only holds on a square photo. The band is laid out
below the top strip, whose height TopBar now reports, so it can never
peek under the header. The grain hashes a cell of width/1080 instead of
the raw pixel grid, so a 4000px export is no longer ~4x finer than the
preview that tuned it.
The ultra-wide preview is a bare Camera2 surface: it never goes through
Skia, so the software EV gain that carries exposure on the 1x preview had
nothing to act on and quick EV / the LIGHT-EV slider did nothing at 0.5x.
The lens itself now takes the bias, as CONTROL_AE_EXPOSURE_COMPENSATION on
every preview request (session builder, metering rebuilds, and a setEv call
the viewfinder pushes whenever the value changes).
The still is left alone: capture() pins the compensation back to 0 and
waits on an AE precapture trigger, so the file stays unbiased and the export
applies its software gain exactly once, as it does for the 1x path. The
hardware range clamps the bias where the lens offers less than the app's
+/-3 EV.
- One free Play app (com.locphamtran.recipescamera) with an expo-iap PRO
unlock, replacing the paid apk for the store channel
- Android SEND/SEND_MULTIPLE share target feeds photos into the editor,
on cold start and on resume
- BACK button in the TopBar and press-and-hold PEEK replace the chip row
- NOISE REDUCTION and SHARPENING accept -10: a negative SHARPENING softens
the frame before the grain pass, a negative NOISE REDUCTION re-grains it,
in the Skia engine, the live preview and the Kotlin export path alike
Rename LIGHT GLOW to HDF EFFECT and gate it behind PRO: LITE renders the
chip greyed out with a PRO tag and cannot open its slider; restoration of
older settings that carry hdf > 0 still blocks export in LITE.
Play/licence pass:
- drop unused permissions (ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION, READ_MEDIA_AUDIO/VIDEO,
SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW) and requestLegacyExternalStorage
- rename the Leica sims to LC STREETLIFE CLASSIC/VIVID, drop the brand from
comments; fix app name text, canvaskit copyright, LICENSE owner
- remove expo-image-picker and expo-sensors (no JS import), delete dead
exports (computeMatrixTint, cinemaSeasonName, base64 helpers,
formatCoordinate)
- versionCode 3 / versionName 1.2.1, drop the personal email from About
- add docs/privacy-policy.html for the Play listing
Size: R8 + shrinkResources + bundle compression + ABI trim, 161 MB -> 76 MB.
Freeing the FAVORITED tab for LITE put no ceiling on the list, and a list
of your own picks is what PRO is selling. One star is free, the second
names the build; un-starring stays open so the list can always come back
under the limit.
LITE used to hand back the RECIPESCAM mark instead of the user's own
watermark and treated every saved recipe as PRO. That is the wrong half of
the product: the looks the user dials in are the reason to shoot, the
printing and the paid extras are the reason to pay.
What LITE now owns outright: the eight film sims, the bundled recipes, up
to three recipes of its own, its own watermark text (in one basic face,
the platform families stay PRO), the plain frames, and FAVORITED. What
needs PRO: the three printed frames, the GPS stamp, the other fonts, and
the next recipe past the limit.
- entitlement: `Look` is {frame, gpsWm}; `isFreeRecipe` is gone, the
recipe gate is a count now, decided in App (`liteSaveBlocked`).
- export: a LITE export draws the custom mark AND the RECIPESCAM mark, so
`liteMark` joins `watermark` in the options and the stamp block loops
over both with one set of bounds.
- panel: past the limit the strip's trailing chip is a `+` carrying the
PRO tag, which names the build instead of opening the form.
LITE lets you pick any preset, frame or watermark and preview it; only the
export is held back, and nothing on screen said which chips those were until
you hit the alert. Each such chip now carries a small amber PRO tag at its
top-right corner.
ChipDef gains an optional `pro` flag, set on the three printed frames, on
recipe chips (bundled or user-made, via isFreeRecipe), and on the custom
watermark chip. The tag renders only where `!IS_PRO`, so it is invisible in
the PRO apk.
The set is two apks and the unlock key was a second, weaker lock on the
same door. A verifier that runs offline has to carry its secret inside
the lite apk, so anyone who unpacked it could mint a key. Nothing in the
lite build can flip the gate now.
- entitlement.ts keeps the gate (which look is PRO, what an export
carries in lite) and exports IS_PRO straight from the build flag.
- SETTINGS loses the key field; the plan chip still says LITE / PRO
ACTIVE and the helper text says what lite cannot export.
- The upsell alerts just name the build that has the feature.
- tools/keygen.mjs goes with the verifier it fed.
Both flavors build from one JS tree: `lite` hands out the free apk
(com.locphamtran.recipescamera), `pro` sells as-is (same id + .pro, label
"RecipesCam Pro"). Release is signed from android/keystore.properties, both
files gitignored - lose either and no later build can install over this one.
The tier reaches JS through src/provariant.ts, which tools/set-variant.mjs
rewrites before each build (`npm run apk:lite` / `apk:pro`); the gradle flavor
alone would ship a Pro apk that thinks it is Lite.
The dev scaffolding goes: the three src/dev probes and their App effects, the
EXPO_PUBLIC_CAPTURE_MODE [CAPTURE] timing log, and the -PdevtestSuffix
side-by-side install hook. 'balanced' stays the shipped capture mode, which is
what those probes measured on the 12S Ultra.
Looking at the picture: WB now converts kelvin through the Planckian locus into
a luma-normalised gain (unity at 5500K, symmetric tint) instead of the old
one-sided push; LEITZ STREETLIFE splits into CLASSIC and VIVID; selecting a
recipe loads every knob it carries over the defaults and stays editable, and
RESET hands the panel back to the sim's own values. The in-app library picker,
the ultra-wide native module and recipe share/import land here too.
CLARITY and LIGHT GLOW existed only on the camera worklet and the export
engine, so a photo opened from the library ignored both. They now run in all
three library preview branches (libPhoto), and the preview clips them to the
drawn image - the export engine always clipped its bloom to the canvas, the
preview drew it over the whole rect, so the bloom bled past the photo onto the
black letterbox and over the frame's mat.
Dragging the date bar fired a window query every 120ms while one query takes
over a second on a 12S Ultra, so ~20 queries queued behind each other, the
grid froze for the length of the drag and the stale one landed last - the
grid settled on a date the finger had long left.
The window now opens on both sides: a page above the target, so a list parked
mid-library still has content above it and a downward drag does not die on
offset 0, plus the target page and everything older. jumpTo coalesces the
drag into one query and parks the grid on the row the target date sits on;
scrolling back up to the top pages newer photos in and corrects the offset by
hand, because maintainVisibleContentPosition keeps the offset glued to index 0
and walked the grid forward in time as it paged.
LITE previews every look and feature but export/render is blocked while a PRO
look is in use, and every LITE export carries the RECIPESCAM mark. Keys are
generated offline (FNV-1a checksum over a fixed secret, 16 chars from a
no-ambiguity alphabet) and activate one machine or a thousand: nothing is bound
to a device, so revoking a leaked key needs Play Billing plus server validation.
CREATE, FAVORITED, the star chip and the TopBar + SAVE now answer with a PRO
prompt instead of a silent no-op; CREATE still drafts and applies the look so
LITE can try it, it just cannot persist.
The SETTINGS card also lifts above the keyboard now: RN Modal is its own dialog
window, so the IME never resizes or pans it and the UNLOCK row was sitting under
the keys.
Pressing and holding on the picture with the LIGHT/WB/FX panel open now
rewinds the last edit, and the panel rewinds with it: the chip numbers and
the open slider read the same pre-edit snapshot, so before and after can be
compared by eye and not just by looking at the picture. Only the displayed
values move -- the stored adjustments, RECIPE and the export keep the real
ones, and a gap longer than PEEK_GAP_MS starts a new snapshot for the next
gesture.
Also pass frameTabActive, without which the FRAME preview zoom added in
Viewfinder.tsx could never turn on.
Pressing and holding on the photo with a LIGHT/WB/FX panel open asks App
for a preview drawn without the edit that gesture just made; lifting the
finger asks for the edited look back. Pegged to one gesture, not one
pointer-move: App only re-snapshots the 'before' state after a 700ms
pause, so the whole drag compares against its own starting point.
Preview-only - the sliders, RECIPE and the export keep reading the real
adjustments. Moving past TAP_SLOP, a second finger, or a release all end
the peek, and a peek is not a tap, so tap-to-focus and double-tap zoom
are untouched.
- FRAME tab now pinches the whole view (frame + photo + watermark) in both
camera and library; one finger pans that view. Preview only: the exported
file is identical at 1x and while the view is magnified.
- Watermark pinch/drag stay relative and keep priority while the WATERMARK
row is open, so they still work after returning from the FRAME tab.
- Exports go through a native MediaStore insert into DCIM/Camera, falling
back to expo-media-library when the native save fails.
The watermark chip used to be the only GPS control, so turning the watermark
off also stopped the photo from carrying coordinates. Split the two: a GPS
master switch in Settings decides whether the location is read at all, and the
chip decides whether it is drawn on the photo.
0x889d is also written as UTF-8 now — a place name with accents ("TAM KỲ, ĐÀ
NẴNG") was going out latin-1 and reading back as mojibake.
The framing tool matches Make/Model against its known-device list and prints
the place name; a CameraX capture only carried the raw model codename
(2203121C) and no 0x9a00/0x889d, which is what a stock camera photo always
has. State the market name plus the geotag locality, and leave a source that
already carries 0x9a00 untouched so a library photo of another device is
never relabelled.
HyperOS Gallery reads EXIF 0x889e (a JSON blob) to build its watermark
frame; without it a photo fails with "cannot recognize the parameters".
CameraX/HAL never supplies that vendor tag, so a capture from this app
lacked it while a stock-camera photo carried it.
Read back the same props the stock camera derives the blob from
(ro.product.device / ro.product.marketname / Build.MANUFACTURER) via the
native module, synthesize the blob in exifWrite, and write it only when
the source has none and the device is Xiaomi/Redmi/POCO - a source blob
is never overwritten.
Match the layout the sample camera file uses: a fourth Interoperability IFD
(0xa005 = R98/0100) and the baseline tags the emulator HAL omits (ExifVersion
0230, FlashPixVersion 0100, ComponentsConfiguration, ColorSpace), plus the
OffsetTime/OffsetTimeOriginal/OffsetTimeDigitized tags for shots this app
timestamps. Source-owned tags are still kept as-is.
Also fix swapToLittleEndian: Buffer.slice() aliases, so the big-endian swap was
mutating the caller's bytes (a Xiaomi source read back as ISO 36865 instead of
400). Use new Uint8Array(data).
- FRAME/CROP: choosing a ratio shows the amber band (border + 0.55 dim);
APPLY collapses the preview to the crop rect with an opaque mask and
removes the amber stroke; RESET returns to 'none'.
- Viewfinder: libCropView (k = min(vw/dw, vh/dh)) + cropScreenPx drive the
mask/band, libViewMatrix folds the crop transform into the image groups,
libCropTouchStyle keeps touch mapping aligned.
- Persist cropApplied in the session snapshot and restore it only when it
still matches cropRatio.
- Add PLAN-2026-09-09.md with the measurements.
tsc --noEmit unchanged at 14 pre-existing errors.
EXIF Orientation only knows 0/90/180/270, so a library still carries no
record of how the camera was held. The sensor had nothing to offer.
AUTO now measures the dominant line in the picture itself:
src/utils/horizon.ts runs a shear-projection search (coarse 1 deg over
-45..45, then a 0.5 deg refine) on a <=256px thumbnail, bails when no
line's score beats 3x the median, and returns the tilt in degrees.
App applies photoStraighten = -tilt, so preview and export share one
number exactly as the slider did.
Removes expo-sensors wiring, the horizonRoll state, effectiveStraighten
and the bubble-level overlay (autoRoll prop) from App/AdjustmentPanel/
Viewfinder. expo-sensors stays in package.json.
AUTO turns the amber level line on over the photo, but the line only left
when AUTO itself was switched off: switching to another frame chip, another
parameter or another rail tab kept it painted on the picture.
Gate the line on the ROTATE context instead: AdjustmentPanel reports whether
the ROTATE strip (or its STRAIGHTEN row) is open, App keeps autoRoll non-null
only then, and the frame chips now close the strip like every other chip
does. Verified on emulator-5554: AUTO on with the strip up shows the line
(row 1199-1203, 594 px); tapping LIGHT and coming back leaves it off.
Four follow-ups on the strip added for the quarter turns / straighten / AUTO.
AUTO is "snap to the sensor horizon": it now drops the manual STRAIGHTEN offset when it is switched on, so enabling it after a hand-set angle really levels the photo instead of leaving the angle untouched (the chip goes from "ROTATE 0 · +22°" to "ROTATE · AUTO").
The "<" back button on a slider row returns to the strip the row was opened from (STRAIGHTEN to ROTATE, COLOR TEMP to TEMP) instead of closing everything, and picking another parameter — a frame chip or the global RESET — closes the open row, so the straighten slider no longer outlives the parameter it belongs to.
Opening another photo from the library resets the turn, the fine straighten angle and AUTO with it: a new photo starts level.
The ROTATE strip gains an AUTO chip that reads the device tilt from expo-sensors and feeds it into the straighten angle while the library is open, so the export is levelled to the horizon. It sits right after RESET, combines with the manual STRAIGHTEN offset and with the quarter turns, and both RESET paths clear it.
The accelerator is sampled every 100 ms only while AUTO is on and the library is visible; near-flat and past 45 degrees readings are ignored so the level does not chase noise. AUTO rotates the image by +roll (a +10 degree emulator tilt exports 10 degrees clockwise), which is the sign that matches the preview.
A level line overlay is drawn in the preview: amber within one degree of level, white otherwise. Adds the expo-sensors dependency, so a native rebuild is required.
Two fingers scale the live feed inside a polaroid card / wall opening and
one finger drags it, both clamped to the window, and the shutter passes the
result to the export as frameWindowZoom so the printed crop matches what the
viewfinder showed. The crop centre is mapped through the same out-space ->
raw transform as the window rect; feeding it straight to the raw plane
swapped the axes on a rotated sensor.
RESET was look-relative: it only put the sliders back on the values the
active recipe ships with, so the look itself (a saved recipe, a film sim)
survived the tap. It now restores the state a clean start leaves — the
PROVIA startup look, every parameter neutral, frame off, the custom and
GPS watermarks back to their defaults — and it sits on every tab, pinned
outside the scrolling chip row so it can never scroll out of reach.
Mode and aspect ratio stay put: they frame the shot being worked on, not
the look.
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