Google will add in your operating system android a characteristic that would have been useful to more than one a few years ago during teleworking caused by the pandemic: being able to use the mobile as a webcam.
Converting your mobile into a webcam is currently possible thanks to various third-party applications, but it would seem that in the future, which we hope will not be too distant, Google will allow us to turn our Android into a USB webcam
Use the mobile as a USB webcam
For years the Android operating system has allowed us to connect a USB webcam to our device, but now Google is going even further and will allow the opposite, connect our mobile to a PC and that the computer recognizes our mobile as a USB webcam.
Mishaal Rahman discovered in the Android source code that Google adds support to turn an Android device into a USB webcam simply by connecting it to our PC and without third-party applications.
Using an Android phone as a webcam has become very popular during the pandemic, but you usually had to install a third-party app to do so. However, you may not have to do this in the future, as Google adds support for turning Android devices into USB webcams!
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) February 2, 2023
The operation would be very simple. When connecting the mobile via USB to the computer, we would find a new option in the usb preferences
It is not known in which version of the operating system this new support would arrive. In a few weeks, the launch of the first glimpse Android 14, with which support for turning Android into a webcam it could be one of their novelties.
