Hey, anyone has any idea about creating a tablet e...

# android

[sathawale27]

Hey, anyone has any idea about creating a tablet emulator without a built-in hardware camera feature. So, I could test the application for my workflow.

[luke]

I think you can do that in the AVD Manager by selecting "Create Hardware Profile" https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds#createhp

[sathawale27]

Thanks for your response. Actually, I was able to create an emulator without built-in camera, but the thing is whenever I check whether the camera feature is supported or not for such emulator, then it results in giving the true response everytime. Even if the camera feature is not supported.

[luke]

What function are you using to check?

[sathawale27]

packageManager.hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA)

It detects whether the device support camera feature or not. In my case it returns true even if I ran the application on emulator that doesn't have built-in camera feature

[luke]

It might be better using the Camera2 interface https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/hardware/camera2/package-summary

[luke]

I think you'd want to call this function and wrap it in a try/catch: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/camera2/CameraManager#getCameraIdList()

[sathawale27]

Yeah, I thought of it and tried that too. It also detects 2 cameras for such emulators.

[sathawale27]

Thanks @luke. It worked by using the CameraManager API. I was using the old emulator that has camera, so got that result. Thanks for you response.

[luke]

Nice one. I should have read your message earlier, I just knocked up a sample 😄

[sathawale27]

Oops! Btw thanks for your efforts.

[luke]

It's here anyway if you're interested: https://github.com/LDuncAndroid/camera2-query-tablet-camera-count

[luke]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0B8M7BUY/p1589203441468800?thread_ts=1589118283.452900&cid=C0B8M7BUY

No problem