Does anyone have an example of how to stream the camera to a server on android?

Question

I find plenty of examples of downstreaming a video from a server to an android, but I actually want to stream live images from my droid to a server.

Answer 1

I know that Qik claims to do this. But as I am now reading the Wikipedia article more closely, it says that it doesn't really do live streaming for the iPhone or for Android.

For iPhone, it starts uploading after the recording has finished, and for Android, there are 15-20 seconds delay (according to Wikipedia).

So it seems if not even those Qik guys, who seem to have experience with live streaming, can do it, it's a very hard problem.

On the other hand, I have not tried Qik. Maybe you can install and test it, and do some traffic sniffing with Wireshark to see how they do it on the network level.