[lightedman]

"USB cameras also aren't natively supported on iOS/Android. You need apps."

The attachable endoscope for my Ulefone Armor would disagree. It works with the stock Android camera app.

Lo and behold, you just need DRIVERS.

[numpad0]

Did they finally implement UVC in Camera2/CameraX? I thought that had been Soon(TM) for years.

[lightedman]

No, you just implement the Camera2 API and camera HAL interface in your driver so your device can talk to all the applications that call that API.