I am trying to take a screenshot of my android device programmatically.
I have found dozens of Questions and posts, years old and not current. For example:
How to programmatically take a screenshot on Android?
The Approach works in the way of taking a screenshot of my main application window. But I I want to take a screenshot of the whole device including other apps!
example:
Instead of the "Internal Storage" + Control overlay, the original app is recorded or alternatively, the tiny view of the control overlay.
Anyone an idea on how to record the current screen? I'm fairly sure there must be solutions as there are apps out there such as the following screen recorder:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=videoeditor.videorecorder.screenrecorder&hl=en
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I'm looking for a way to get the contents of the screen in android but not for taking a screenshot.
A little background, I recently broke up with someone and want to create an app that will "censor" photos of her (ie: just pixelate them). I know how to write a training algo to be able to detect her, and I can write a service in Android that will just run in the background, but I've not yet come across a way to get the screen contents. My thought was to look at the screen and if she shows up in Instagram, texts, or any app, just pixelate that portion of the screen (or put a black square over it or whatever).
Unfortunately the android docs haven't helped me much, so does anyone have any experience doing so, or can you point me towards any thing that would help?
I'm not sure if this is a violation of any rules, so if it is, my humblest of apologies, I'm just stumped and feel free to mark this closed.
I am working on an Android app mainly based around the camera of the device. I am able to launch and use the Camera Intent but I would like to know if there is a way to customize this camera screen. I mean, for the moment, the camera preview screen displays all the settings of the camera, I would like to be able to hide them. If possible, I would also like to add new buttons on this screen, so I could launch popups or display a message to the user. Is it possible or should I try to use an external library which handles that ?
Basically, I would like to have a camera screen which would look like the one from the Snapchat Android app.
Thanks!
I would like to know if there is a way to customize this camera screen
No. After all, there are several hundred possible applications that you could be launching, and none of them have to offer any sort of API for the control that you want.
I would like to have a camera screen which would look like the one from the Snapchat Android app.
Then use the camera APIs directly (e.g., android.hardware.Camera) and write your own camera app.
In Android Studio we can both capture and record screen on our devices. When capturing the screen we have the option to directly frame our screenshot in device art or use online tool http://developer.android.com/distribute/tools/promote/device-art.html
When Recording Screen there is no option to frame it in device art and Google don't seem to provide any online option either.
What would be the fastest and easiest way for developers that want to showcase their screen recording in a frame from device art where a new video is created where device art is wrapped around our screen recording.
Give away your best tip. I would love a fast, free online service that solves this and guess there is one out there.
I've spent a substantial amount of time researching, but could also not find a service for it.
I have however written a guide for how to record screen, add device frame and convert to gif, which you can find here:
http://appdictive.dk/blog/how-to/2015/04/20/google_plus_gif/
The short version of it is:
Record screen
Get Device frame picture
Use Photoshop or other video editing software to add the frame as static picture to the video (guide briefly shows how to do this in Photoshop).
Hope this helps others searching for a solution to this as well.
There are very few services I've come across on the web that allow you to simply upload a video within device art frames, especially free platforms. However, if you have video editing software such as Adobe After Effects, you could import images and videos and create this yourself; albeit added cost and time against the earlier option.
Despite the above, I've managed to utilise Google's Device Art Generator page to extract the device frames they offer quite easily. All you need to do is create a solid background colour in Adobe Photoshop (as an example), say bright green, followed by uploading this to the generator. Download the image generated with the device art applied with the solid fill colour and then use the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop and simply delete the solid colour. With this in mind, the next course of action is to simply insert the video using After Effects in the transparent space now available. This is even a bit overkill, as you only need to overlay the video within the screen dimensions of the generated screenshot from Google, yet this gives you an idea of how you could achieve what you want.
I had the same problem and ended up writing an app to do that:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mobilej.recapp
It works completely on the device - no plugin or desktop version yet. It needs Android 7.0+
I'm the author of the app - so sorry for referring to my own app.
Since ICS it became really easy to take a screenshot from within Android. In the presentations Google goes further than that by streaming/saving the whole content that is shown on the screen including sound directly from the device. How to achieve that? Do I need some extra HDMI certified screen grabbing cards consoles require?
Does Android have the software capabilities to, if a phone has video-out, to open or push content solely to the video out.
So for example if the user is in and clicks on a YouTube link, the app, instead of opening the content on the main screen over the app it would push it to the video out so the YouTube video would display on their connect display and they could continue to browse.
I know Motorola's have the WebTop software and this idea is similar to what I am trying to accomplish but on a much more basic level. It's more similar to Apples AirPlay but much less complex again (without a network/external player - just video out).
Or if even that is to complex an even simpler solution of having the video-out still output even when the phone is locked. Currently the video-out mirroring on both my HTC Incredible and Galaxy Nexus will stop when the phone is locked.
EDIT:
I've noticed while using my phone that playing a video through the Google Videos app that on the phone controls will overlay on the screen i.e. play, pause, seek bar, and, the soft buttons, but the video-out display (Television) plays the video continuously/seamlessly without any of the controls over-layed. Now this is very primitive example of what i'm ultimately alluding too but it does show a real world example of an android device (no 3rd party manufacture software) doing video out that isn't exactly mirroring.
Well... I hate to furnish this as an answer, but it really looks like there's simply nothing in the API for it at all...
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/9e3bcd1eea2c379
which just redirects to:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/Jxp_9ZtzL60
I'm definitely going to favorite this question, and hope someone chimes in with something more useful than a "doesn't look like it's possible, though that does appear to be the correct answer, at this time.
Much like Dr.Dredel has mentioned, there is nothing current for multiple displays in terms of display 1 showing 'A' and display 2 showing 'B'
There is support for multiple screen sizes per the following:
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#support
This will be the case for a little while longer until someone creates the support for it.