startActivityForResult(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE) never returns result

Question

I'd like to launch a video capture Intent that calls me back with some kind of result. So far it correctly launches the G1's default Camcorder app, but when I finish recording the video in Camcorder, it just sits there (still in the Camcorder app) instead of calling my onActivityResult() method.

Is this just a shortcoming of Camcorder, or is there a special flag or extra I can set to tell it to return control when it's done recording? Ideally it would pass me back a handle to the video - a URI, an InputStream, a file path.

The code:

protected void launchRecordVideoActivity() {    
Intent intent = new Intent (android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE);
startActivityForResult (intent, RequestCodes.RECORD_VIDEO);
}

RequestCodes is my own interface containing int constants.

public void onActivityResult (int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent) {
    ...
}

The contents of onActivityResult don't matter because my app is never called back at all. onActivityResult is not being called.

Any suggestions? I can also bake the video recording directly into the app, but I'd prefer not to.

Answer 1

You can't (generally) call startActivityForResult on an intent that starts an application outside of your application