How to fix “Fail to connect to camera service” exception in Android emulator

Question

I\'m getting a Fail to connect to camera service exception when I run my Android app in the emulator. I\'ve read the various existing posts but none have fixed this. It is

Answer 1

If you are using surface View and using code like this`

 Observable.create(CameraUtils.getCameraOnSubscribe())
                    .subscribeOn(Schedulers.newThread())
                    .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
                    .subscribe(camera -> {

                 mCamera = camera.open();
...    
}};

Then replace mCamera=camera;