Android: How to initialize MediaRecorder without a valid surface for video preview?

Question

I am building a camera app, where videos are continuously being captured and saved to the SD card. The videos are short (few minutes), and their length are preset with setMa

Answer 1

I think the IP Webcam app can do this, though I don't know how. Maybe it only works on >=2.3. I'm not sure what version I saw it running on. I asked a question to find how how it's working.