How can I record a Video in my Android App.?

Question

How can I capture a video recording on Android?

Answer 1

As a side note - there seems to be a bug in the Android API or faulty documentation or maybe I am just plain stupid. The google docs clearly states the following:

Note: Starting with Android 4.0 (API level 14), the Camera.lock() and Camera.unlock() calls are managed for you automatically.

See: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html

This does not seem to be the case!

After batteling for literaly days without any success and many little problems like "failed to start" kinda errors I decided to manually implement the locking and BAM! everything worked fine.

Im using the genymotion emulator for a 4.1.1 device with a min sdk of 14.