# Video/Audio Live Streaming from Android devices without preview

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/video-audio-live-streaming-from-android-devices-without-preview/52579
**Category:** Wowza GoCoder SDK
**Created:** [December 31, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/video-audio-live-streaming-from-android-devices-without-preview/52579 "2018-12-31T18:48:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Angelo\_Portelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Angelo\_Portelli](https://community.wowza.com/u/Angelo_Portelli)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/video-audio-live-streaming-from-android-devices-without-preview/52579/1 "2018-12-31T18:48:57Z")

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Is it possible to hide/remove the preview using Android GoCoder SDK and so to perform the live streaming in “background” ?

Can you send an example on how to do it ?

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### Author: ![Mike\_Smales](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@Mike\_Smales](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mike_Smales)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 9:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/video-audio-live-streaming-from-android-devices-without-preview/52579/2 "2019-06-04T09:43:54Z")

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Hi @Angelo Portelli did you find a solution to remove the preview? I am also trying to do this. Thanks.

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### Author: ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/video-audio-live-streaming-from-android-devices-without-preview/52579/3 "2019-06-04T15:48:13Z")

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Have you viewed this section of our Android SDK docs for the API calls @Mike Smales?

You can find them here:

[https://www.wowza.com/resources/gocodersdk/docs/api-reference-android/](https://www.wowza.com/resources/gocodersdk/docs/api-reference-android/)

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### Author: ![Mike\_Smales](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@Mike\_Smales](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mike_Smales)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/video-audio-live-streaming-from-android-devices-without-preview/52579/4 "2019-06-05T09:36:09Z")

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Brilliant, thank you Rose I’ll take a look!