Is there any way to use the auxiliary cameras in gcam on this device? I've tried several and none works. I have root if necessary
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is there anywe to use any webcam USB camera as front facing camera. I know i sound like stupid. but being open source I think android has thrown numerous ways open for R&D. hope someone there may think like me...
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The rear visibility out of my car is particularly poor so I'm wanting to set up a reversing camera and I'm hoping there may be a way I'd be able to use my phone to display the image from the camera. I currently use the SGS3 as a sat. nav. device and would like to be able to use the same display for the reversing camera. Does anyone know a way it can be done?
Hmm, interesting one. I could suggest that you have a cheap Ethernet security camera and use a webpage on your phone to display it?
USB Video Capture device but you'd need a driver for it.
You could use a Samsung SH100 camera maybe, that connects to Android phones wirelessly and lets you see through the viewfinder on your phone.
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Is there way to trick Android to think that USB camera is internal? I mean to make camera apps to work with USB camera. I know that there are dedicated apps that work with USB cameras. But the point is to make standard Android interface to work with USB camera. I guess driver development may be involved. It is OK. Just trying to know if somebody did similar stuff or has some idea how to do this or if this possible even.
Bit of a weird one for you all, but here goes.
I want to be able to plug production level cameras into a smartphone or tablet, and have them read as the native camera. Looks like Android is capable of accepting a USB UVC source, since apps like CameraFi exist that allow you to plug a webcam into your phone with an OTG cable for recording. Looking around online, it looks like the Magewell USB Capture SDI device will take a camera and treat it as a USB UVC source, like any webcam.
So the hardware makes sense to me, but the last thing to figure out is how to disable the built-in camera on a phone/tablet, and instead have the OS read the external camera as the main/only one. This way, my hope would be that any apps, such as Periscope or Ustream, would automatically work with the external camera. Anyone have any ideas on how to pull that off? Any Android device brand or model will do if you have recommendations.
Thanks!
bardem said:
Bit of a weird one for you all, but here goes.
I want to be able to plug production level cameras into a smartphone or tablet, and have them read as the native camera. Looks like Android is capable of accepting a USB UVC source, since apps like CameraFi exist that allow you to plug a webcam into your phone with an OTG cable for recording. Looking around online, it looks like the Magewell USB Capture SDI device will take a camera and treat it as a USB UVC source, like any webcam.
So the hardware makes sense to me, but the last thing to figure out is how to disable the built-in camera on a phone/tablet, and instead have the OS read the external camera as the main/only one. This way, my hope would be that any apps, such as Periscope or Ustream, would automatically work with the external camera. Anyone have any ideas on how to pull that off? Any Android device brand or model will do if you have recommendations.
Thanks!
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We have been discussing this at work lately and are very interested as well . We're thinking of creating a virtual android instance on a PC that has no webcam, using a device like the one you mentioned and seeing if we can trick it that way
Hello experts.
I am a software engineer and currently working on an evaluation module from TI (Texas Instruments). I have a AM5728 Evaluation Module with me and I have successfully compiled Android SDK 5.03 (8.1 Oreo) on it. After compilation, I found that camera app is not working (black screen for a first run and getting crashed on subsequent runs). It seems to me that board is not able to detect the camera device/module even though it is attached to the board. I probably think it is related to camera HAL issue.
However, the USB camera works completely fine when attached to the EVM and is verified using simple usb cam application. The system camera is not being detected at all.
Therefore, I would like to customize Android at a source level and add code to automatically switch the default camera to the one connected by USB when it is available. Or if switching dynamically is not possible then disable the primary (built-in) camera and make USB (external) camera as the default one.
This way all applications should detect the external (USB) camera as the primary camera. For example, if I open camera application then the device take the picture from the one which is connected via USB.
I have the Android SDK source code available with me, but I am not sure how to proceed.
Really appreciate your help.
Thanks!