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Reputation: 1135

Controlling external camera with Android smartphone

I would like to write an Android app to pass commands to an external camera whose SDK is available from the manufacturer's website. The SDK is C-based and the camera I/O is done through a mini-USB or mini-HDMI ports. This is a two part question:

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1737

Answers (1)

paulsm4
paulsm4

Reputation: 121699

Q: Can Android-based smartphones send commands to external USB devices? I do know that they can access data from an external USB device.

A: Sure, as long as the device is connected via the Android USB port :)

Q: Will C ... work on Android-based smartphone?

A: With much effort, you can interface Java and C on android (analogous to JNI on other platforms). Look at the NDK docs for more details.

Q: Can I interface a binary C language library that's probably written for Windows, in i386 object code, from Java, on Android, running an ARM CPU?

A: Nope. It's more than just a different language. You're also dealing with a different platform, different object formats, and a completely different CPU architecture.

Your best bet is if the vendor can provide either a USB-level or message-level interface to the device. You're pretty much SOL with a binary .dll or .lib library interface.

Upvotes: 2

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