Faking Camera Input

Currently unless using Intent in Android 4.0 or on you only get a fake camera image in the Android Emulator

 

Here is an application that uses the standard Camera application (on all android devices) Intent for Android 4.0 and on.

 

NOW what do you do if you need to controll the camera but would like to use Emulator to test (ofcourse you can go and put it on some device and then you will have true access to phone).

Fake Camera Input

• Option 1: write some code to load up image and do file i/o for testing....a work around.
• Option 2: hack the Android system to get it to work....see below for some links that can help (search...lots of people having this problem...look for solutions search "android fake camera image")....links can disappear so search if they are gone
  • htttp://code.google.com/p/zxing/issues/detail?id=1052#c3
  • http://www.tomgibara.com/android/camera-source