Why does the app needs access to youtubei.goigleapis & dialercallinfolookup-pa

[natarslan]

First of all thank you for developing this app. I had been comparing open camera, photon and my native camera for days now. I love the quality of the photos taken by Photon!

There is something that I dont understand (im not familiar with these topics). Im using netguard to follow apps and how they try to access internet. I can see so many different requests from photon every time I open the app (this is not the case for open camera nor in my native phone camera app).

In another issue someone made it clear that the app needs access to internet to "download the latest calibration data for each device" from github .

When i look at the internet access attempts in netguard I can see some with "raw.githubusercontent" which makes sense considering the above info.

But i also see some attempts to:

• youtubei.googleapis.com
• dialercallinfolookup-pa.googleapis.com
• android.googleapis
• ajax.googleapis
• And so on

Would it be possible for someone to explain why these above requests are made in simple terms?

[eszdman]

It depends on the version you are using, the version available on the playmarket uses firebase, current versions do not have this and only access github data

[natarslan]

Thanks. I reinstalled the app by using the Google play link from the repo.

I no longer see access to

• youtubei.googleapis.com
• dialercallinfolookup-pa.googleapis.com.

Currently I only see access to

• android.googleapis.com
• ajax.googleapis.com
• beacons.gvt2.com
• avatars.githubusercontent.com

And im assuming the first 3 happens because I downloaded the app from Google play. Is that right?

[eszdman]

Install app from github releases

[natarslan]

Yeap, thats what I was missing. Thank you for diricting me to the correct download.