com.samsung.android.hwresourceshare Copy

Labelled "Camera Share" in our sample (also recorded as "Camera sharing" under en-gb, with localised equivalents in other locales), this is a Samsung system package. Its label matches Samsung's Camera Share feature, which Samsung documents as letting a Galaxy phone act as a wireless webcam for video calls on a Galaxy tablet or Galaxy Book. Samsung's support article says Camera Share is available on select Galaxy phones, such as the S and Z series, running One UI 6.1 or higher; that both devices must have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Camera sharing enabled and be signed in to the same Samsung account; and that it is switched on under Settings > Connected devices > Camera Share. The article documents the feature rather than naming this package, so the tie between the two rests on the label and is an inference. In our sample it is recorded only on Samsung devices. Where this site holds signer data, it is signed by a Samsung OEM key that also signs the Android framework, a platform-level key. Its requested permissions include CAMERA, RECORD_AUDIO, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CAMERA, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MICROPHONE, INTERNET, the Bluetooth scan, advertise and connect permissions, and a permission named com.samsung.android.permission.HW_RESOURCE_SHARE that is also requested by com.samsung.android.hwresourceshare.storage (Storage Share); this site cannot establish which package declares that permission. This site aggregates permissions across observations rather than per build, so which builds request which permissions cannot be established. Version note: Samsung gives One UI 6.1 as the minimum for Camera Share. This site has observed this package on devices reporting API 34 to 37, and this site's roll-up reports versions from 1.2.01.38 to 1.9.00.9. How those observations line up with One UI releases is not something these records establish. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, no enrolment or management role is identified in the sources cited here. If this package is the Camera Share component its label indicates, it lets another Samsung device signed in to the same Samsung account use the phone as a webcam, which may be relevant where camera use is restricted by policy; whether an EMM camera restriction also stops Camera Share could not be sourced. The effects of disabling it could not be established from these sources, so test on a single device first.

• Use your Galaxy phone as a webcam with Camera Share - Samsung US Support →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.hwresourceshare - Android System App Database →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.hwresourceshare.storage - Android System App Database →

• Signed by the device maker's own signing key (Samsung), so it is an OEM preinstall, and that single certificate is consistent across all 12 device profiles. It also signs the Android framework, so it is a platform-level key on its device(s). Inferred from the certificate appearing only on Samsung devices (580 packages, 11729 observations).
• Its largest observed manifest declares 39 permissions: 6 runtime (user-granted), 11 signature or system-level, 13 install-time and 9 vendor or uncatalogued.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.