Using Camera in the Android emulator

Question

I wish to simulate camera in the android emulator using the webcam. Basically I need to only take photos with the camera in the emulator (live preview is not needed i.e if i

Answer 1

Some elaboration, in the hope of clarifying what has already been said:

As stated above, Webcams are supported natively in the current SDK, but only on recent android versions (4.0 and higher)

Webcam detection is automatic where present. In 4.0.3, the camera defaults to the front-facing camera so a lot of applications (especially pre-2.3 applications, which can only fetch the default camera, i.e. the back-facing one) will still show you the old checkerbox-with-moving-square stand-in instead.

I think some more info is available in the following post: Camera on Android Eclipse emulator:

Or at least, that's the most information I've been able to find--aside from the brief, uninformative statements in the release notes for the SDK tools.

Answer 2

In your AVD advanced settings, you should be able to set front and back cameras to Webcam() or Emulated.

Answer 3

Does not seem like it, but android recognises a webcam as a device. Every time I run the emulator my webcam's active light comes on.

Answer 4

Just in case you just need to show a picture in response to a camera request, there is image-to-camera.

Just download, build, install, copy an image of your choice to the device, and you can select it via the app, which is an alternative to the built-in camera.

Answer 5

There is an updated version of Tom Gibara's tutorial. You can change the Webcam Broadcaster to work with JMyron instead of the old JMF.

The new emulator (sdk r15) manage webcams ; but it has some problems with integrated webcams (at least with mine's ^^)

Answer 6

Update: ICS emulator supports camera.