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.
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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 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
Can I use my webcam connected to the AVD for testing camera and its functionality?
I have read in some articles that Android 3.0 + supports this feature.Is it possible?
I also receive a connect cam dialog box when my webcam is connected, when I start my AVD.
Using Eclipse.
AVD Manager
Edit the AVD.
Hardware > New:
Configures camera facing backwards = "webcam0" (use dropdown).
Run project using that AVD.
Its some tricky way either its work or not I don't know...
But you can try it, Look at How to use web camera in android emulator to capture a live image?
Live camera preview in the Android emulator
Live Camera Previews in Android
I'm new to android apps development. I'm trying to use the camera of my computer to catch a picture in Android Emulator. I've checked out Tom's method, but it is written in the former syntax. It has a lot of errors while I'm trying to compile them. Is there anyone have a better way?
When I run the emulator with my laptop, a message pops up asking me if I want to attach the computer web cam to the emulator. I select "Yes" and it works fine.
Make sure you didn't select any "no-camera" settings in the AVD creation, and that your camera has the right drivers and whatever it needs to operate.
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.