How to know when MediaRecorder has finished writing data to file

Question

We\'re using MediaRecorder to record video to a file on the external storage using setOutputFile() before doing the actual recording.

Everything works fine, but the main

Answer 1

I haven't tried this myself but this might work:

public void release () Since: API Level 1

Releases resources associated with this MediaRecorder object. It is good practice to call this method when you're done using the MediaRecorder.

If it does what it says, then I guess if you call this and after this method returns you know the file is ready.