How to record video, then share or save it. Using Appcelerator Titanium!

RecordingVideo.js

/**
 * This sample lets you record and share video with Appcelerator Titanium on Android.
 * REQUIRES THE 1.6.0 RC OF TITANIUM MOBILE SDK
 * http://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2011/02/release-candidate-for-titanium-mobile-1-6-0.html
 */

/**
 * First, create our UI. We'll have two buttons: record, and share.
 */
var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
    title: 'Video Recording from Appcelerator Titanium',
    backgroundColor: '#fff'
});
var recordButton = Titanium.UI.createButton({
    top: 10, left: 10, right: 10, height: 35, title: 'Record Video'
});
win.add(recordButton);
var shareButton = Titanium.UI.createButton({
    top: 50, left: 10, right: 10, height: 35,
    title: 'Share Recorded Video', visible: false
});
win.add(shareButton);
var saveButton = Titanium.UI.createButton({
    top: 100, left: 10, right: 10, height: 35,
    title: 'Save Recorded Video', visible: false
});
win.add(saveButton);
win.open();

/**
 * We'll use the following variable to keep track of the result of our recording action.
 */
var videoUri = null;

/**
 * When they click this, we'll start the video capture activity and wait to hear back from it.
 */
recordButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
    // http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore.html
    var intent = Titanium.Android.createIntent({ action: 'android.media.action.VIDEO_CAPTURE' });
    Titanium.Android.currentActivity.startActivityForResult(intent, function(e) {
        if (e.error) {
            Ti.UI.createNotification({
                duration: Ti.UI.NOTIFICATION_DURATION_LONG,
                message: 'Error: ' + e.error
            }).show();
        } else {
            if (e.resultCode === Titanium.Android.RESULT_OK) {
                videoUri = e.intent.data;
                Ti.UI.createNotification({
                    duration: Ti.UI.NOTIFICATION_DURATION_LONG,
                    message: 'Video captured; now share or save it!'
                }).show();
                // note that this isn't a physical file! it's a URI in to the MediaStore.
                shareButton.visible = true;
                saveButton.visible = true;
            } else {
                Ti.UI.createNotification({
                    duration: Ti.UI.NOTIFICATION_DURATION_LONG,
                    message: 'Canceled/Error? Result code: ' + e.resultCode
                }).show();
            }
        }
    });
});

/**
 * When they click this, we'll start an activity with an intent chooser to let the user
 * choose how they want to share their video.
 */
shareButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
    var intent = Titanium.Android.createIntent({
        action: Titanium.Android.ACTION_SEND,
        type: 'application/octet-stream'
    });
    intent.putExtraUri(Titanium.Android.EXTRA_STREAM, videoUri);
    Titanium.Android.currentActivity.startActivity(
            Titanium.Android.createIntentChooser(intent, 'Send Video via'));
});

/**
 * When they click this, we'll save the video to the SDCard and tell the user where to find it.
 */
saveButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
    var source = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(videoUri);
    var target = Ti.Filesystem.getFile('appdata://sample.3gp');
    // note: source.exists() will return false, because this is a URI into the MediaStore.
    // BUT we can still call "copy" to save the data to an actual file
    source.copy(target.nativePath);

    Ti.UI.createNotification({
        duration: Ti.UI.NOTIFICATION_DURATION_LONG,
        message: 'Saved to: ' + target.nativePath
    }).show();
});

Dawson, thanks for sharing. Do you know if there is anything here that would inhibit video record quality? Have been using this but getting reports of quality issues, although I assume this intent defaults to 'high' video quality

...the capture overlay presents options for video quality and shows 'high' as default - again, just wondering if you might have an explanation for any reports of video quality issues (comparing new Android output to iPhone 4 output, for example). Thanks.

Hello. This is great! Do you also know a way to make the recorded video to be displayed in a: var activeMovie = Titanium.Media.createVideoPlayer on a Android devise? It seems to be impossible to make it show up in a Android view.

Hello. This is great! Do you also know a way to make the recorded video to be displayed in a: var activeMovie = Titanium.Media.createVideoPlayer on a Android devise? It seems to be impossible to make it show up in a Android view.

Thank you!

Unfortunately, this is not working on some Android devices (e.g. my Samsung Galaxy Nexus). On those devices e.intent.data is always null. I tried several solutions suggested on stackoverflow (e.g. My Android camera Uri is returning a null value, but the Samsung fix is in place, help?), but not a single one lead to success.