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

I had a similar issue with a slightly different error message under OS X. I turned out that everything was ok but the emulator is crashing when the camera takes too much time to initialize.

I my case I ended up closing other applications and it worked. You may want to test in a more performant computer.