UVCCamera

A USB Video Class (UVC) camera library for Android.

This is a hard fork of Alexey Pelykh's UVCCamera (itself a fork of the original UVCCamera by saki4510t), modernized for compatibility with the latest Android SDK, NDK r28+, and Play Store requirements. Full 16 KB page size support is included out of the box for Android 15+ devices.

Great gratitude to saki4510t for the original library, Alexey Pelykh for his fork and contributions, and the broader community of contributors whose PRs and patches made this possible.

16 KB Page Size Support

This fork adds full support for Android devices with 16 KB memory pages (Android 15+), ensuring compatibility with next-generation hardware such as Pixel 10 and other devices shipping with 16 KB page sizes.

What changed

• Linker flag: APP_LDFLAGS := -Wl,-z,max-page-size=16384 in Application.mk forces all native libraries (libUVCCamera, libuvc, libusb, libjpeg) to align LOAD segments to 16 KB boundaries.
• NDK r28+: The build requires NDK 28.0.13004108 or later, which defaults to 16 KB page alignment.
• Platform bump: APP_PLATFORM raised from android-21 to android-26 for modern NDK compatibility.

Supported ABIs

ABI	Status
armeabi-v7a	✅ Supported
arm64-v8a	✅ Supported

Minimum Android API level

• Native libraries: API 26+ (Android 8.0) due to APP_PLATFORM := android-26
• Library minSdk: API 21 (Android 5.0) — note that native code requires API 26+ at runtime

Usage

Android library

The library is available on GitHub Packages.

// settings.gradle.kts
dependencyResolutionManagement {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url = uri("https://maven.pkg.github.com/cptskippy/UVCCamera")
            credentials {
                username = project.findProperty("gpr.user") as String? ?: System.getenv("GITHUB_ACTOR")
                password = project.findProperty("gpr.key") as String? ?: System.getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
            }
        }
    }
}

// build.gradle.kts
implementation("com.github.cptskippy.uvccamera:lib:<version>")

Note: GitHub Packages requires authentication. Generate a personal access token with read:packages scope and set it as gpr.key in your gradle.properties.

Building Locally

Prerequisites

• JDK 17 (Temurin recommended)
• Android SDK with Build Tools and platform SDK
• NDK r28+ (28.0.13004108 or later)

Setup NDK

sdkmanager "ndk;28.0.13004108"

Build native libraries

cd lib/src/main/jni
ndk-build -j$(nproc)

Build AAR

./gradlew :lib:assembleRelease

Publish to local Maven

./gradlew :lib:publishToMavenLocal

Verification

Verify that your .so files are 16 KB aligned:

# Check a single library
readelf -lL libUVCCamera.so | grep LOAD

# Expected output shows alignment of 0x4000 (16384 bytes):
# LOAD           0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 R E 0x4000

# Check all libraries in the output directory
for so in lib/build/intermediates/cxx/RelWithDebInfo/*/obj/*.so; do
  echo "=== $(basename $so) ==="
  readelf -lL "$so" | grep LOAD
done

Every LOAD segment should show Align: 0x4000 (16 KB). If you see Align: 0x200000 (2 MB) or Align: 0x1000 (4 KB), the library is not properly aligned for 16 KB devices.

Development & Contribution

Commit conventions

Format: (type) scope: description

Type	Meaning
fix	Bug fix
imp	Improvement/enhancement
chore	Maintenance (deps, CI, tooling)
docs	Documentation

Scope prefix when targeting a specific module: ci:, lib:

Branch naming

Type	Pattern	Example
Feature	feat/description	feat/pause-resume-preview
Fix	fix/description	fix/preview-size-comparison

License

The original license applies to the relevant parts of this project as well:

Copyright (c) 2014-2017 saki t_saki@serenegiant.com

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

All files in the folder are under this Apache License, Version 2.0. Files in the jni/libjpeg, jni/libusb and jin/libuvc folders may have a different license, see the respective files.

Some dependencies may have different licenses, so please check the dependencies' licenses before using this project.