{"id":154772,"date":"2023-02-04T13:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=154772"},"modified":"2023-02-04T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T13:32:20","slug":"google-is-developing-an-application-that-will-allow-you-to-use-android-smartphones-as-a-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/mobile\/google-is-developing-an-application-that-will-allow-you-to-use-android-smartphones-as-a-webcam\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is developing an application that will allow you to use Android smartphones as a webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an analogue of the Continuity Camera, which appeared in iOS 16 and macOS 13. True, the wireless connection of Android devices, as implemented in the iPhone, is out of the question &#8211; the smartphone will need to be connected via a USB cable.<\/p>\n<p>The DeviceAsWebcam feature will allow the computer to identify the connected smartphone or tablet as a UVC USB video device.\u00a0This is the universal standard for most webcams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Using an Android phone as a webcam became really popular during the pandemic, but you&#39;ve typically had to install a third-party app to do so. You may not have to do this in the future, though, as Google is adding support for turning Android devices into USB webcams!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MishaalRahman\/status\/1621194700790054914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the new feature will be introduced is unknown.\u00a0It will probably become part of Android 14, which will be released later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an analogue of the Continuity Camera, which appeared in iOS 16 and macOS 13. True, the wireless connection of Android devices, as implemented in the iPhone, is out of the question &#8211; the smartphone will need to be connected via a USB cable. The DeviceAsWebcam feature will allow the computer to identify the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/mobile\/google-is-developing-an-application-that-will-allow-you-to-use-android-smartphones-as-a-webcam\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":154773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-154772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}