>I found this very cool app for Android called IP Webcam
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>https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pas.webcam&hl=en
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>What this app does (among other things) is allow you to capture images directly from the camera on an android tablet or phone over wifi via a simple URL.
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>So if your android tablet/phone is connected to your wifi as ip 192.168.1.2 the IP Webcam app will give you various URL's to grab pictures with:
>Simple frame grab - http://192.168.1.2:8080/shot.jpg
>Full resolution photo capture - http://192.168.1.2:8080/photo.jpg
>Full resolution photo capture with autofocus - http://192.168.1.2:8080/photoaf.jpg
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>As you can imagine, this is super easy to integrate directly into a VFP app.
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>The IP Webcam application even supports running in the background which leads into the really cool part. You can use an application like Splash Desktop to remotely access a computer on your network which is running your VFP application. And now your VFP application can capture images directly from the Android device's camera!
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>Now I'm trying to find an equivalent app over on the iOS side, but I'm not having any luck. Anybody come across something that offers similar functionality?

Accessing the Android phone via a URL implies that either the IP Webcam app includes a web server, or it's accessing/leveraging a web server already present in the phone. From a security POV that adds a lot of attack surface.

If I were Apple, I'd be asking myself if I'd want to expose iOS to those potential security issues. Also, would I sanction remote access to iOS content via http/https? That might go against the "walled garden" philosophy. It looks like it's possible to add web server functionality to iOS ( Google [ios web server] ) but it also appears it requires jailbreaking the device.