I want to ADD an external webcam to an Android phone. Ideally a plain old USB webcam, but I am open to anything that works.
I do NOT want to use my Android phone as a webcam. In no way does a PC/laptop factor into the equation here. Just adding another camera to an android phone.
Thanks so much,
Josh
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I have already searched a lot for an answer over the internet such as this question, but didn't found an answer.
I want to record my Android device's screen connected to computer via USB for some kind of automation thing. I found here that Google has created an utility for this but only for versions starting from KitKat.
Are there any other possible utilities or scripts for Windows computer through which I can achieve what I want to do? It should save the resulting video file either on my device or my computer on which it is connected to.
P.S.- I also found that this can be somehow achieved by using javacv library. But i was unable to compile and run all of its sources, so it didn't worked for me until now.
Try androidscreencast.
Summary: Desktop app to control an android device remotely using mouse and keyboard. Should work on Windows/Linux/MacOS with any android device.
Features:
Mouse and keyboard control (FOR ROOTED DEVICES ONLY)
Landscape mode (right click)
Video recording <---- No Root required
Basic file browser
Note: Video FPS is low.
Best tool for screenshots/casts is the recently released AndroidTool:
https://github.com/mortenjust/androidtool-mac
Unfortunately it's only for Mac.
I am developing an Android Application in which I have captured screeenshot.I am sending the image to Socket with Ip Address and Port No.I am able to connect to the ScreenBuffer.But the receiver that is Vnc Server is unable to receive the image.
So for reference as per my Findings I got the following samples
1) https://code.google.com/p/desktopsms/
2) https://code.google.com/p/remoteroid/
But I need to capture the screen of my Android Device on Desktop and Control My Device remotely
Based on My R & d I found that Real Vnc has apps that control the android device.But they require rooting which I dont need to do.
Has anyone worked on similar kind of issue.
Thanks
Hi I haven't worked on creating any app similar to this, but I have worked on softwares like "android screencast" and "android commander".
Both were able to display my screen to PC.
But on rooting my Phone (froyo) I was even able to control it from PC with Android screencast. But I did the same for my other phone (Jelly Bean) it displayed the screen but I couldn't control.
Hope it helps :)
Is it possible to connect an Android smartphone working a host to a computer (working as a device?) I am writing an app that is supposed to remote control a camera via smartphone. I have some trouble testing my app since emulators don't support usb connections. But when I connect my smartphone to the camera I can't really tell what goes wrong. I thought of connecting the phone to a computer so that it could e.g. display the characters it is receiving but I don't really know if it would work, as computers usually work as host to other devices, not the other way around.
Thanks a lot for any tips.
You might wanna take a look here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/host.html
Altho as mention somewhere no google io mobile in android 3.1 didnt support host mode, maybe this has changed in 4.0 which might be true basing on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQGxckZkH2g
A computer cannot act as a Device. If you want to see what is happening on your smartphone when you connect your camera, use the
adb shell dmesg commands to look at the logs and see if the camera is being detected.
i'm developing an android app that needs to capture a camera picture,
is there any way to configure my AVD to use my conputer webcam on the emulator?
when i open the default camera app it shows me an squareanymation, can i use/configure the emulator/avd to use my computer webcam?
I really can't think of a way to do this.
I would do the following:
During development, when debugging on an actual Device under adb, use the camera as normal. While debugging on an AVD, comment out your camera code and us a pre-taken a png to your app that resembles/emulates the photo the camera would have taken. This would let you work on the picture analysis regardless of the camera, and finish your app without an actual ADB device, just AVDs. One you get ahold of a real device you can finish up.
On another note, if you are ready to go poking around in VMs, Android Kernels, and HALS, you could follow this article (http://bytecruft.blogspot.com/2011/05/alternative-to-android-emulator-and.html) which tells you how to setup Android X86 under VMWare or Virtualbox as an ADB Device. I'm sure setting up the host machine's webcam as a camera would be much easier that bay (VMWare device bridging comes pretty close).
Hope I helped.
How to use my local computer camera in android emulator?
At the moment it's not possible in the emulator itself, but Tom Gibara has written a small component to do it anway, check his article "Live Camera Previews in Android" about the temporary solution.
A feature request is already made for this functionality to be added to the emulator.
There is an option to use your computer webcam to use as android emulator camera.You just need to set these options to webcam.