The next release of FW 2.4 is almost ready. The biggest blocker was the new FW for Android. Finally, the situation has improved as we’ve met our goal to reintroduce audio. We’ve managed to add audio recording from microphone and keep pretty solid fps (40-47 in 60fps app). The microphone recording is 100% native and seems much faster than the alternative of sending audio frames from AIR as on the other platforms (we’re still trying to find out why Android hates this method – it causes lags and freezes). FW gained about 10 fps just by going native with microphone recording.
In any case, to use this is again very simple & same as on the other platforms, just start FW with AUDIO_MICROPHONE mode.
The code was also refactored, taking advantage of multithreading when working with both audio and video encoders. The biggest thing thats left for Android is adding “non-realtime” mode support & fully resolving the audio. Also note that its still “alpha”, recommended to test but not into full release (we’ll be happy to work with you on stabilizing Android on your test devices though).
There are small changes on other platforms and to the API as well. Most notably “started” status event was added because start was made async. This eliminated some lag start was causing in Flash – most of it is executed on background thread now.
So to summarize, whats left is the usual finishing works(pretty much packaging everything up, update the docs, examples etc.) which will still take few days, but all the features for this release are closed!