# saki4510t/UVCCamera

library and sample to access to UVC web camera on non-rooted Android device

Repository: https://github.com/saki4510t/UVCCamera
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/uvccamera
Language: C
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-12-14T13:26:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4505, "days_push": 1723, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3219, forks 1305 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:49.689378+00:00)

## What it is
An Android library (with sample apps) that lets non-rooted Android devices access UVC USB web cameras via native code built on libuvc/libusb. It is written primarily in C with JNI bindings and built through the Android NDK/Gradle.

## Use cases
- access a USB webcam from an Android app without root
- stream video from a UVC camera on Android
- capture images from an external camera on an Android tablet
- integrate USB microscope or endoscope camera into Android app
- preview USB camera feed on Android device

## When to choose
- you need to use a UVC-compliant USB camera on a non-rooted Android device
- you want native (NDK) camera access with sample code to start from
- your device's built-in camera API doesn't support external USB cameras

## When to avoid
- you only need the built-in Android camera (use CameraX/Camera2 instead)
- you need a maintained library with recent updates and official support
- you want a pure Java/Kotlin solution without NDK build complexity
- you require a permissively licensed project with a clear license file

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: computer-vision, video-processing, sdk, developer-tools
- domain: android-tools, computer-vision, hardware, cross-platform
- platform: cpp, c
- tags: uvc, usb-camera, ndk, jni, libuvc, android-camera, android

## Member repositories
- saki4510t/UVCCamera (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:49.689378+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 2026-08-29T18:44:28.704098+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/saki4510t/UVCCamera (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:49.689378+00:00, sha 2ac6eef21923)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.