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

Are you implementing Surface callbacks?

Why do you need to initialize MediaRecorder without a valid surface?

Are you supposed to be recording even when you leave the main activity? or does recording stop before the other acitivty is spawned?