Tiny Container Camera by Hasan B

Running Linux on Android with Tiny Computer, Termux or another proot container is great for coding, until you need to join a video call with your team: Android does not let apps inside the container use the camera.

Tiny Container Camera fixes that. It reads the device camera over ADB (wireless debugging) and turns it into a webcam that every website can use.

<b>Features</b>
<ul><li>Virtual camera named "Android Camera (Tiny Container)" on every HTTPS site: Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Jitsi and others.</li><li>No extra Android app: the camera is read over ADB with scrcpy's server, started and stopped automatically when a site needs the camera.</li><li>Asks before a site can use the camera, like Firefox does for a real webcam. Decisions are remembered per site and can be changed on the options page.</li><li>The device camera turns off by itself shortly after the last page stops using it.</li><li>Toolbar button to connect or pair ADB and switch between the front and back camera.</li><li>Also works with any MJPEG stream, such as the IP Webcam app.</li><li>Your microphone keeps working as usual.</li><li>No root, no kernel modules, no v4l2loopback.</li><li>No data collection. Video only travels from your device to the page that asked for it.</li></ul>

<b>Quick start</b>
<ol><li>Enable Wireless debugging on Android and connect ADB from the container.</li><li>Run sh camera-bridge/install.sh from the GitHub repository (once).</li><li>Install this add-on and click "Save and grant access" on the options page.</li><li>Choose "Android Camera (Tiny Container)" in your meeting settings.</li></ol>

<b>Video calls in proot</b>
On Android 11 and newer, WebRTC calls from Firefox inside proot fail to connect because Android blocks netlink sockets. The GitHub repository includes a small fix (webrtc-fix) that makes calls work.

Full guide, troubleshooting and source code: https://github.com/CreatorB/tiny-container-camera