On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 5:57 PM Regimantas Vegele <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering, what way is there today to create a web-app (non-native
> android application) where I'd be able to plug-in a USB camera into an
> android device and be able to use it as an external camera of
> sorts. MediaDevices.getUserMedia() does not seem to work on a mobile
> android device + chrome. It does work on chrome on a pc. My camera is
> detected and I can select it as camera in a browser, but not on mobile. USB
> is blocked as device is a video device.
>

Please file an issue on crbug.com with information about your USB camera
and Android device. External cameras should be available through
getUserMedia() on Android.


> Thanks.
>
> On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 at 21:01:43 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Contact emails
>>
>> [email protected]
>>
>> Summary
>>
>> The following set of USB interface classes, which should not be claimed
>> using the WebUSB API, will be explicitly blocked by Blink: Audio, Video,
>> HID, Mass Storage, Smart Card, Wireless Controller (Bluetooth and Wireless
>> USB). These interface classes are already mostly blocked by an operating
>> system’s built-in class drivers. This change establishes consistency across
>> platforms.
>>
>> Motivation
>>
>> The WebUSB API is designed to provide a mechanism for device
>> manufacturers and developers to build applications supporting novel
>> hardware on the web instead of through native apps. As explained in the
>> original Intent to Ship
>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/KuXx_k2KIis/-g-75FScBgAJ>
>> for WebUSB, most USB devices fall into one of a number of standardized
>> device classes <http://www.usb.org/developers/defined_class> for which
>> there are already high-level APIs provided by the Web Platform. For each of
>> these interface classes the high-level API is the supported path and WebUSB
>> is the unsupported path.
>>
>> Risks
>>
>> Interoperability and Compatibility
>>
>> Developers may have implemented workarounds at an operating system level
>> to allow devices of these classes to be claimed by web content using
>> WebUSB. For example, on Windows, a specially crafted INF file can override
>> the system default driver for a particular device with the WinUSB driver.
>> Or, on Linux, udev rules can be configured so that the Linux kernel does
>> not bind a driver to the device. After this change such workarounds will
>> not be possible.
>>
>> Web developers who have deployed any of the workarounds above will likely
>> be negative on this change however the overall benefit to developers of
>> continuing to provide this API for the scenarios in which it is fully
>> supported outweighs this loss of functionality.
>>
>> Ergonomics
>>
>> Not applicable.
>>
>> Activation
>>
>> Not applicable.
>>
>> Debuggability
>>
>> To avoid developer confusion, a specific SecurityError message will be
>> used when the claimInterface() method fails due to this filtering and a
>> message will be logged to the console.
>>
>> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
>> Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
>>
>> All platforms other than Android WebView, which currently does not
>> support WebUSB.
>>
>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
>> ?
>>
>> This feature is currently tested by LayoutTests while it is decided to
>> what extent the list of blocked interface classes should be part of the
>> specification or Chrome-specific policy. Moving these tests into
>> web-platform-tests is a trivial change once this question is resolved.
>>
>> Link to entry on the feature dashboard <https://www.chromestatus.com/>
>>
>> This is a small change that fits under the existing entry in the feature
>> dashboard for WebUSB.
>>
>> https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5651917954875392
>>
>> Requesting approval to ship?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>

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