# jiangdongguo/AndroidUSBCamera

🔥🔥🔥Flexible and useful UVC camera engine on Android platform, supporting multi-road cameras!

Repository: https://github.com/jiangdongguo/AndroidUSBCamera
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/androidusbcamera
Homepage: https://juejin.cn/post/7115229806844706847
Language: C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: usbcamera, uvccamera
Last push: 2024-09-02T07:43:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3260, "days_push": 730, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2750, forks 935 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:17.882613+00:00)

## What it is
AUSBC (AndroidUSBCamera) is a flexible UVC (USB video class) camera engine for Android, refactored in Kotlin with native C components. It supports opening multiple USB cameras without system permissions, previewing, capturing photos/videos/audio, and acquiring raw streams for pushing to media servers.

## Use cases
- open a USB UVC camera on Android without root permissions
- preview multiple external USB cameras simultaneously on an Android device
- record video and audio from a USB camera to mp4 or h264
- capture YUV/RGBA/H.264/AAC streams from a UVC camera to push to a media server
- apply OpenGL ES effects to a USB camera preview
- capture photos from an external USB camera on Android

## When to choose
- you need to use external USB (UVC) cameras on Android 4.4+ via OTG
- you need multi-camera support or raw stream access (H.264/AAC/YUV) on Android
- you want photo/video/audio capture from USB cameras without system permissions

## When to avoid
- you only need the device's built-in camera (use CameraX or Camera2 instead)
- your Android device does not support USB OTG
- you target platforms other than Android

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, video-processing, audio-processing, sdk
- domain: android-tools, computer-vision, media
- platform: jvm, cpp
- tags: uvc-camera, usb-camera, multi-camera, otg, opengl-es, h264, video-recording, camera-preview, android

## Member repositories
- jiangdongguo/AndroidUSBCamera (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:17.882613+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:18:57.880324+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jiangdongguo/AndroidUSBCamera (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:17.882613+00:00, sha 5595e23cacc2)
  - homepage: https://juejin.cn/post/7115229806844706847 (fetched 2026-08-29T09:56:54.082133+00:00, sha fb8ca1fdcf3c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.