Hello everyone -- I'm wondering if anyone has any experience replacing a built-in front-facing camera on any android device with a UVC/USB webcam. What I want to do is build a custom app that works on a regular android phone where I can use the camera1 or camera2 apis to get access to camera data from a USB webcam I have. I of course know that on this site there are many guides for replacing cameras on various android devices using manufactured replacements (sometimes non-OEM), but I am trying to figure out if there is any android device and some sort of adapter where I could plug into the front-facing cameras MIPI/CSI port but have it be able to plug into some kind of webcam/uvc/usb signal. It would be pretty sweet if you could plug in "arbtrary" webcams that support UVC and have an Android phone read this as a normal camera signal that could be processed with the Android Camera APIs!
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My only dissapointment is that there is no camera on the shield. I use skype and hangouts sometimes to keep in touch with family. I imagine something would have to added in to the system for this to work? I was thinking of using one of those clip-on bluetooth cameras.
Ps. Crap sorry I meant to post this in the question section
you would probably have better luck with a USB camera, you can get a USB host cable that connects to the micro USB of the shield (or any other android device) and allows you to plug in USB devices.
Whether android will work with a USB webcam or not though I dont have a clue
Hi guys, I have an M8 Android TV box and is working perfectly aside from a little bug/driver issue with my USB Logitech C710 camera. I want to use the camera for Skype/take pictures with regular camera app but the images come out with distorted colors. I tried using different USB ports but the problem persists. Is there any way I can fix the drivers manually so that the picture looks like normal? I tried the camera with my laptop and it works fine. I also installed every known camera app in the playstore and the only one that used the camera normal was Snapexwebcam. If anyone can help me and need more information to reach a solution please let me know.
Thank You for your time
Respectfully, XianLen
PS: My TV Box is rooted
I wondered lately if can be would dismantle the phone, remove the camera and the camera itself to make such a web camera at the usb. It may be an article or something about this. I will say that I am not interested connecting camera via the network.
I have tried 3 different cameras. Anyone out there using a USB camera for DVR? I can see the cameras showing up as /dev/video1 and /dev/video2. I read somewhere that the driver got trashed sometime in the 6.0 release.
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!
hey @devashishtiwari.
I am having a similar problem. Did you find a solution. if yes, please contact me at [email protected], its really urgent.