scrcpy

Or if you want to use scrcpy, which I find indispensable. https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

Because there are a lot of features beyond just streaming a screen capture, it supports many versions of Android, and it is a polished utility. The actually screen recording part is simple since you are just using existing Android APIs to have hook up the diplay server to a media encoder and the media encoder to the network. https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/a3cdf1a6b86ea22786...

scrcpy is awesome! Native support for streaming the camera directly (vs. streaming a screen capture of the camera app) is coming soon: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/pull/4213 For folks willing to build from source, I have an additional commit on top of the PR (linked in the comments) that enables support for Android's constrained high speed capture mode, allowing 120fps/240fps camera streaming. Not the most useful for meetings, but enables things like capturing high frame rate mixed reality VR footage. As far as I'm aware, there's no other Android webcam app, proprietary or open source, that can do anything above 60fps.

The scrcpy project is already great for this: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy Here's a little script for streaming through your camera on obs: get-adb-devices-list() { adb devices | grep -v "List of devices attached" | grep -v "daemon" | grep -v "^$" | grep -c . } echo "device count: $(get-adb-devices-list)" while [ "$(get-adb-devices-list)" -eq 0 ]; do echo "Waiting for the device..." sleep 0.5 done IP_ADDRESS=$(sudo adb shell ip addr show wlan0 | grep "192.168.." | awk -F ' ' '{print $2}' | cut -d '/' -f1) connect-adb-tcp () { sleep 1 echo "Connect to the device...$IP_ADDRESS" && \ adb tcpip 5555 && \ sudo adb connect "$IP_ADDRESS" } connect-adb-tcp && \ v4l2-ctl --list-devices && \ scrcpy -e --v4l2-sink=/dev/video0 --lock-video-orientation=1 -n -N &> ./log & obs

This was one of the reasons, why I went with one of the Boox devices (Max Lumi) in my case. It is Android, so adding even easier than working around their Linux distro. Screen sharing (actually it doubles as a remote control as well) via https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy And as they don't try to leverage proprietary formats, Syncthing for syncing books and notes. And NetGuard for a good measure, so it doesn't call home.

Another way to get a similar experience is by enabling the following options from the android developer menu: * enable freeform windows * force desktop mode on secondary displays * enable non-resizable in multi-window Then choose "simulate secondary displays" and choose the size (720p, 1080p, 4k) Using https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy from your desktop and connecting to your phone allows you to choose the virtual display to connect to instead of your main phone display with the --display flag. It's similar to a chromeos feel and very performant

I really like the doc for developers. https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/master/doc/develop...

The killer app for Android is scrcpy. https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy This project can enable so many interesting things. It allows you to fully control, stream and automate anything running android including phones, Chromecasts, and even the android subsystem on Chromebooks. The new version supports streaming audio in addition to the device screen from wherever you run the scrcpy CLI. You can even send keystrokes and "dpad" events to control apps, or connect your mouse and keyboard to the device like it was hardwired. And it all works over your LAN via Ethernet or WiFi without root. You could easily use this with any audio app to kick off casting to other devices in this context. Oh and btw it even can run from inside a docker container. Cheers to the author(s) it's a hackers dream tool.