On Jul 6, 2:23 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > No you need to be associated with an Activity UI in some way, so you can > have a SurfaceView attached to it to.
I can't really get around needing a Surface, because one is necessary for setPreviewDisplay on the camera. On the other hand, I have tested that I can dismiss an Activity from the foreground once I have the Surface and continue recording video. The Surface seems to be available in the background as long as it was in the foreground at _some_ time. So, I've struck on a solution that might be good enough for my purposes. When I need to start recording video, I could start an Activity that allocates the surface, begins recording, then backgrounds itself. I haven't looked into it yet, but I assume the Android platform has some way of remembering what the previous activity was so I can automatically return to it. Then I can keep recording in that activity until I'm done, and then stop the Activity somehow. I guess that this will result in the screen flickering when the activity starts up, but it sounds like there is no way around it. Do you have any suggestions for how I could operate the video recorder less disruptively than that? Specifically, in a way that would not interrupt whatever else the user is doing when my program decides to start recording? -- James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
