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Given a Android tablet and a camera (Samsung Android).

Is it possible to use remote camera like a build in camera? A local camera I could open using the camera API but how to make the camera from another device locally available?

Do I need to have a second app on the other device and make some video streaming for live preview or is it possible to create a link with drivers in Linux?

Another solution could be this open source video streaming lib I found. Combined with VLC as client app that could work. But I would also need a back channel to control the camera. This look very complicated to me.

Samsung Camera also supposed to support DLNA but I think this is only useful after a picture war taken not for live preview. Right?

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    "Is it possible to use remote camera like a build in camera? A local camera I could open using the camera API but how to make the camera from another device locally available?" -- only with some sort of a ROM mod that exports an IP-based camera as part of the `Camera` API. – CommonsWare Jun 25 '14 at 13:39
  • Similar question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14401340/live-stream-video-from-one-android-phone-to-another-over-wifi – PiTheNumber Jun 25 '14 at 14:31

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I played around with IP Webcam. It creates a live view of the camera as I needed.

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