Tutorial how to use samsung galaxy y an android phone as a webcam using Usb cable.
Use
your samsung galaxy y an android phone as a webcam for video call like
on MSN or Skype, Google+ hangout or for video chatting. Why to spend
money to buy Webcam if you can easily use your samsung galaxy y an
android phone as a webcam.
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So
now i am going to write this tutorial it is simple and easy just follow
the steps correctly. So lets configure our android phone as a webcam
via USB cable.
First of all lets configure our computer runing windows 7:
- As android devices can communicate with PC using USB cable only in debugging mode using ADB. So first of all we will have to install and configure ADB (Android Debug Bridge). Download android sdk from here android-sdk_r16-windows.zip
- Now extract it to root directory of computer say "C:\android-sdk-windows" and run SDK Manager.exe and then install Android SDK Tools and Android SDK Platform-tools.
- Now ADB installed we shall add their paths to the PATH environment variable to do this in Windows 7, right-click the ‘Computer’ icon and click ‘Properties’. Now click ‘Advanced System Settings’ from the options in the left pane to bring up the ‘System Properties’ window. Then click the ‘Environment Variables’ button on the ‘Advanced’ tab and find ‘Path’ in the ‘System variables’ section and click on edit (Note: Do not Delete any thing) and add as the line below at the end of the line with semi-colones and click ok.
- Install usb driver if not installed .
- Now download and install client application on your computer from here Dev47Apps.
- First of all we will have to set our phone to debugging mode to do this Menu > Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging).
- Download Droid-cam from Android Market it is free install it and run it. It will display "Starting server..." message
Server on phone
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client on pc
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- Now Start the DroidCam client on your pc and select "connect to phone (USB)" option then click on connect.
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