android-camera-socket-stream

An example application of a video socket connection between an android device and a REST-Service with socket.io.

How does it work?

This project uses:

• android application with the android.hardware.camera2 library to get each frame that the camera captures
• flask for the frame transfer endpoint
• socket.io for the socket communication between the android app and the flask service

How to start?

1. Install flask pip packages through pip install flask and pip install flask_socketio
2. Start the flask service with python websocket.py. The server runs on port 5000.
3. Update the socket url in the android class SocketStream.java to communicate with your flask Service for example private String url = "http://192.168.1.1:5000";
4. Start the android application on an emulator or a real device, keep in mind that the device needs to be in the same network as your flask server! Press the "Start"-Button and your terminal should look like this.