UVC is already part of the standard kernel but you need to configure the kernel to use it of course. To capture the output you need to use video 4 linux (v4l2).
Hedwin On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:15 PM, lucrus <lucio.cru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 15 Mar, 10:21, lucrus <lucio.cru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello *, > > > > I'm new to this group and to Android kernel development in general, so > > please be patient with me for my newbie questions. > > > > My customer would like to use a external USB webcam (UVC) connected to > > a tablet that has a USB Host port. Are there any plans to include the > > UVC driver in the Linux kernel for Android in the future? The app > > would need to be easily installable by end users, so the "compile it > > yourself" solution is a non-starter. > > > > Also coding a static UVC library (GPL license) using the > > android.hardware.usb API seems a bit hard way to go... unless there's > > someone here, already UVC-skilled, interested in doing such paid job... > > I just feel the need to clarify some points, based on private messages > received so far: > > 1. I'm not going to write a UVC driver for Android myself. For one, > I'm not skilled enough for that job and then I think we don't need to > write an UVC driver, we already have one in the Linux kernel. Either > we plan to include officially that in the Android Linux kernel, or we > plan to port that code as a Dalvik static library (if we ever decide > to do anything about that). > > 2. I know the current UVC Linux driver is GPL and many people > contributed it in years. For my project (actually my customer's > project) it's ok to have a GPL static library and then to make Android > apps under GPL license. If someone is interested in coding such > library, he would be paid to port/write GPL code. > > -- > unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
