Build an Android app to control a Q7 Camera P2P WIFI

This tutorial will teach you how to build an Android app to control a Q7 Camera P2P WIFI using the Android Studio development environment.

Start a new project

I create a new project with application name "Q7Camera". During the wizard i add a basic activity.

Import native libraries and sources

To control the camera you need the libraries at this link: https://github.com/brusdev/q7cam/tree/master/app/src/main/jniLibs/armeabi. Copy the previous library in the path "app/src/main/jniLibs/armeabi" of your project. The packages to import are x1.Studio.Core at https://github.com/brusdev/q7cam/tree/master/app/src/main/java/x1/Studio/Core and com.microembed.sccodec at https://github.com/brusdev/q7cam/tree/master/app/src/main/java/com/microembed/sccodec.

Edit the manifest

To use the native libraries you need to add the following permissions to the manifest:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

Edit the activity layout

I add the following sv to the activity layout to show the camera:
<SurfaceView android:id="@+id/surfaceView_video" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" />

Edit the activity source

To show the camera in an activity, it needs to implements the interfaces SurfaceHolder.Callback and IVideoDataCallBack, you can find an example here: https://github.com/brusdev/q7cam/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/brusdev/q7cam/MainActivity.java.

Repository

You can find the repository with the complete example here: https://github.com/brusdev/q7cam.