Camera doesn't work on android 2.2

Question

In Android SDK and AVD Manager, I created a new android virtual device as following:

• Name: myavd
• Target: Android 2.2 - API Level 8.
• SD Card: 50MiB.
• Build-in: Default (HVGA).
• Hardware: Abstracted LCD density 160.

After starting this device, I can't take a picture from build-in camera. The following is the error and exception.

The application Camera (process com.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

08-18 15:00:47.940: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(289): FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 11 08-18 15:00:47.940: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(289): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No configs match configSpec 08-18 15:00:47.940: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(289): at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$BaseConfigChooser.chooseConfig(GLSurfaceView.java:760) 08-18 15:00:47.940: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(289): at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$EglHelper.start(GLSurfaceView.java:916) 08-18 15:00:47.940: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(289): at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1246) 08-18 15:00:47.940: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(289): at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:1116) 08-18 15:00:48.369: WARN/ActivityManager(66): Force finishing activity com.android.camera/.Camera

Do you know what is wrong ?

Answer 1

It seems that this is normal behaviour. check here.
The emulator does not seem to support camera. Here are these limitations :

Emulator Limitations

In this release, the limitations of the emulator include:

* No support for placing or receiving actual phone calls. You can simulate phone calls (placed and received) through the emulator console, however.
* No support for USB connections
* No support for camera/video capture (input).
* No support for device-attached headphones
* No support for determining connected state
* No support for determining battery charge level and AC charging state
* No support for determining SD card insert/eject
* No support for Bluetooth

Answer 2

What is wrong: emulator 2.2 is broken.

Workaround: Create an AVD with 2.1 as the target.