I don't have an embedded camera in the lid of my notebook. I'd be hooking up through an external USB camera.
The emulator runtime can pick this up right? I'll get the image displayed inside the AVD skin's screen in real time?
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A:
From the android documentation:
Emulator Limitations
In this release, the limitations of the emulator include:
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No support for camera/video capture
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In other words, no, you cannot access or preview the camera in the emulator.
Josiah
2010-07-19 20:09:12
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A:
Afaik the emulator wont show a realtime camera regardless.
If you need a live camera-source to use in your own app for debugging, there is a sollution at http://www.tomgibara.com/android/camera-source
Updated for newer android versions: http://www.inter-fuser.com/2009/09/live-camera-preview-in-android-emulator.html
Løkling
2010-07-19 20:14:11