Are you one among them who wish to roam around and video chat? Or do you want to yourAndroid phone to take additional charge as Mr. webcam? Well, there is an app for that. If you own an Android phone or device with a pretty decent camera then you can use it with computer for video chatting over wireless networks. Awesome!
DroidCam for Android is a free app that can convert your Android Phone & device to a wireless cam. Droidcam works over WiFi and streams your phone’s camera output to your computer. This app works well with chat apps like Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Messenger etc. If your Android phone supports HD resolution video capturing then it can be used as portable HD webcam for computer. DroidCam supports or works with Windows and Linux machines.
Once after installing DroidCam app on Android phone head over to laptop/ computer to install the DroidCam desktop app. Launch the DroidCam app on phone and wait for it to connect to desktop client. For detailed steps on how to configure DroidCam with IM chat apps click the links below. Support for Mac is in pipeline.
Steps to install DroidCam on Linux machines – Link
Download DroidCam for Android Phones now
PS: No audio support at the time of drafting this post.
