Using Camera in the Android emulator

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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Update of  param s answer   ICS emulator supports camera   I found Simple Android Photo Capture  which supports webcam in android emulator

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Update  ICS emulator supports camera

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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

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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

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