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

In the current release of the emulator (Ice Cream Sandwich, API14;Linux), web camera support is available. Google's documentation and most answers available on the web do not yet reflect this. The emulator itself does:

emulator -help
...
-fake-camera       set fake camera emulation mode
-webcam name=[,dir=<direction>] setup web camera emulation
...
emulator -help-all

and further:

help for option -fake_camera

Use -fake-camera to control fake camera emulation. Valid values for are:

off   -> disable fake camera emulation
back  -> fake camera is facing back
front -> fake camera is facing front

help for option -webcam

• -webcam off to disable web camera emulation.
• -webcam list to list web cameras available for emulation.

• -webcam name=[,dir=] to setup parameters for web camera emulation.

  • platform-independent name identifying emulated camera device.

  • defines direction the camera is facing. Valid values are:

    • front -> emulate camera as facing front

    • back -> emulate camera as facing back

      Default direction value for emulated web camera is 'front'