Recording sound

Sound recording can be done by using RecordControl. Series 40 platform supports sound recording from 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 onwards. You can check the support by using the following system properties:

  • supports.audio.capture - for audio recording

These properties return true if recording is supported.

When creating a Player for audio capture, or specific capture, the locator URL must be used as a parameter to the createPlayer method of the Manager class. The following code line creates a Player instance for audio capture:

Player p = Manager.createPlayer("capture://audio");

Camera snapshot for pictures or audio recording use the following locators:

  • Photo capture locator:

    • capture://image

  • Audio capture locator:

    • capture://audio

You can also define the exact recorded media type to the locator URL. The supported parameters vary between platforms and devices. Note that SDKs might not support capture features at all, so testing should be done with the actual mobile devices. For further details about recording, check the (JSR-135) Mobile Media API.