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Android 2.3 + AIR 2.5 + (CameraUI + recording) + playback = FAIL

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July 1, 2011
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From the Release notes of AIR 2.5:

"AIR supports only low resolution video recording using CameraUI"

This has the effect that on a Android 2.3 device the AIR application can only record a 176x144 (h.263 + aac) trough the CameraUI class, but this file is not playable by the AIR itself.

We searched for a solution and asked lot of wise people to overcome the default video setting, but as it seems with AIR 2.7 this issue is unresolved, so currently (2011.07.01) the video recording is useless in AIR on Android.

Any ideas for local video (with audio in sync) recording on Android 2.3 is welcome.

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Joe ... Ward

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Yes, there is a subtle design flaw in CameraUI. As a video is recorded, the video starts to fill up memory. When the device runs low on memory, the OS shuts down background apps -- including the AIR app that launched the camera. Thus when the video is returned to the AIR app, the app is no longer running. This is far more likely to happen with higher resolution videos.

Perhaps AIR could handle this better. Feel free to file a bug/enhancement at https://bugbase.adobe.com.

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Our problem is that we had HD videos already recorded with our app without issues, and after some later builds we saw that we lost functionality we had earlier.

We need some sort of solution because we currently have lost a basic functionality of our application.

And because we have the full project from Flash - AIR, not even Flex, we have not the option to migrate the whole project to native...

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Joe ... Ward

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I though we disabled high-resolution video recording before the final, public release of AIR 2.5.

Your best short-term solution might be to use this technique: http://www.jamesward.com/2011/05/11/extending-air-for-android/ to integrate your own native camera code. In the long run, you should be able to use the forthcoming ActionScript native extension feature for an easier deployment/integration.

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