Make Android Emulator Use Physical Usb Camera

Android Studio, latest Google SDK emulator. I have set back camera emulation mode to Webcam0 to get my usb camera connected to emulator. Unfortunately, it's not working. My camera

Solution 1:

you can try to edit the config.ini of the AVD in ~/.android/avd/avd_name/config.ini like in this link http://viralpatel.net/blogs/enable-camera-in-android-emulator/ or use Android Studio directly like in this Android: How to use webcam in emulator?

if this isn't working see Lekensteyn's answer (2nd) in Connect USB device to Android Emulator?. it describes how a USB device can be passed through to a QEMU emulator. Android emulator is modified QEMU for more details see https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandline.html

to find out if your webcam is recognized anyway try emulator @avd_name -webcam-list to get the available AVD use android list avd

more on passing through a USB device to QEMU emulator is also in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/250938/qemu-usb-passthrough-windows-guest