Android Emulator: Unable to start webcam to capture picture in emulator

Question

I have created an armeabi API 21 emulator in the AVD manager in Android Studio, set it to use the webcam as a front camera, and launched it. The problem is that it\'s not able t

Answer 1

You can try to manually edit your AVD's configuration file under

~/.android/avd/yourAvdName/config.ini

by adding this line:

hw.camera=yes

UPDATE

You can try to specify the real resolution of your webcam:

hw.camera.maxHorizontalPixels=XXX
hw.camera.maxVerticalPixels=XXX

Keep in mind that the default value for maxHorizontalPixels is 640 and for maxVerticalPixels is 480, so chaning this values may help you to solve your issues.