[android] Using Camera in the Android emulator

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 it makes it any easier)

I followed the tutorial here which is the only one I could find that was close to my requirements

But many of the libraries used in that tutorial(like android.hardware.CameraDevice) are not available in present sdk and are replaced by new libraries(like android.hardware.camera).

Any help on how to do this in the present sdk(2.1 or 2.2) would be much appreciated.

The newest camera2 apis work fine w/ an emulator that has camera support enabled.

Example for using the newer API:

https://github.com/googlesamples/android-Camera2Basic/blob/master/Application/src/main/java/com/example/android/camera2basic/AutoFitTextureView.java

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

Update of @param's answer.

ICS emulator supports camera.

I found Simple Android Photo Capture, which supports webcam in android emulator.

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.

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 ^^)

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.

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.