The phrase “my computer’s camera is broken”, which is always said in online classes, is now history. The latest version of Android brings a brand new feature. Now Android users will be able to connect their mobile phone’s camera to Windows, Mac, Linux or even another Android phone. In this way, your phone camera will be able to work like a webcam. This fun feature comes with the beta version of Android. Now when you connect an Android phone to a computer, a new option will appear in the USB Preferences menu. Here are the details…
With the Android beta version, your phone will turn into a webcam!
With the latest Android beta version, you will now be able to use your phone’s camera on your computer. When you connect your Android phone to a computer with a USB cable, you will see the new feature in the USB preferences menu. To do this, simply select this new option instead of the default ‘file transfer’. Thus, the phone camera will record itself as a webcam.
So when is this feature coming? The version with this feature; Android 14 QPR1 is Beta 1. Android 14 will most likely be released alongside Pixel 8 in October. QPR stands for quarterly platform release. This means that this feature will arrive in December with Android 14 QPR1.
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In fact, this is not the first step for the smartphone world. This feature has been available on iOS for a long time. Technically, we can say that Android was inspired by iOS for this feature. Apple calls this feature Continuity camera. But it only works between iPhone and Mac. Android will offer this feature as a general USB webcam. In this way, this feature will be able to work in almost every environment such as Windows, Mac and Linux. You will even be able to connect an Android phone to another Android phone.
A phone is much thicker than the top half of a laptop. Computer cameras are crammed into the paper-thin screen. That’s why many phone cameras have better resolution than a laptop’s camera.
This feature is great, but things don’t end there. We must position the camera in the correct position to use it comfortably. For this, a suitable phone mount is required. Additionally, the new feature does not bring an update to the microphone. You will need to obtain an external microphone.