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I want to stream images from one video-capture Android application to another Android application in real time on the same phone. The former video application records and processes images. I would like to stream these images as they are created directly into the second Android application. I have control over the implementation of both applications and can make the video-capture Android app run as a service.

I have found a lot of support online around how to send video or images between applications via Intents or broadcasts. However these methods aren't done in real time and require the full video file. Any direction at all would be greatly appreciated.

Wizard of Ketchup
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    The Android SDK does not have much for this scenario. It's rather specialized and would have performance issues on older/weaker devices. Plus, I would expect most video-processing scenarios to be just in a single app, not split across two. – CommonsWare May 15 '20 at 20:11

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You can make a content provider (in the video-capture app) that allows other apps to open the content as an InputStream. The other app will read that InputStream. This should work more or less in real-time.

Rediska
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