Camera on Android Eclipse emulator:

Question

I don\'t have an embedded camera in the lid of my notebook. I\'d be hooking up through an external USB camera.

The emulator runtime can pick this up right? I\'ll g

Answer 1

Afaik the emulator wont show a realtime camera regardless.

If you need a live camera-source to use in your own app for debugging, there is a sollution at http://www.tomgibara.com/android/camera-source

Updated for newer android versions: http://www.inter-fuser.com/2009/09/live-camera-preview-in-android-emulator.html