I am having trouble using the "Screen Capture" function in Eclipse to capture an Android screen shot. I have the correct tab open, and when I click the screen capture icon, the box pops up and just stays on "Capturing..." but the display never changes from a white box with an X through it.
I have USB debugging turned on on the phone and I have the correct device selected in Eclipse..any other tips? Thanks!
Navigate to your android sdk install folder. Open the Tools folder and find DDMS. Run DDMS and use the Screen Capture option from the Device pull down menu. This is the native tool that Eclipse tries to use and it works better natively.
On the screen capture window, click done, then reopen the screen capture dialog. I have to go through this process every time I want screen caps, for some reason it doesn't connect to device on the first run.
This works for me, also when Logcat ceases to work: When I disable and re-enable the debug mode on the device, everything is working again.
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I have Android on a Pixel 5 on the standard Android Emulator inside Android Studio. I just want to restart the phone using the power button like a normal Android user. However, clicking the power button just makes the screen go blank like this:
Clicking it again just wakes it up, and holding it down brings this up:
Most of the documentation I've seen tells me to do a cold boot, but when I do, I see this.
So, I delete these two files and try cold boot again. Android Studio displays some text that says something like "Start AVD now" but nothing happens. The phone does not restart.
I cannot find any way to restart the OS. It's jammed in one spot. I've deleted and recreated image after image without any way to restart the phone. Any help would be much appreciated.
Clicking on the dots menu on the emulator row on Device Manager you will find the option Cold Boot Now.
Alternatively, you can use
adb reboot
I am trying to test multiple screen sizes and is annoying having to shut down the emulator then open a new one just to check the size (there is a new font so I can't view it in the editor).
I open multiple emulators but the box doesn't appear to select the emulator it just runs the previous one.
I searched the answers here and they said go to Run > Edit
Configurations and Select emulator as Target or simply check the
checkbox Use same device for future launches.
I am obviously wanting the opposite so it would be unchecked. The thing is the box is unchecked but it is not giving me the option to select.
Thanks in advance
It should work if the box is unchecked. Probably a bug of android studio? In any case, I've found that clicking stop and then running again gives you the option to select device.
Click the stop button on the right to kill the app and then run again.
I created a brand new emulator today but it is behaving weird today. Here is my setting:
When i start it up, it loads fine. Until it gets to the lock screen. I keep on dragging/swiping from bottom to top to unlock, but it wont! This is the first time I encountered such behaviour. I tried with target Android 6.0 - API Level 23 but was able to unlock. I want to test my app on Google API 23. Please help to figure out the proper setting values.
Happened to me as well.
Another solution in addition to what #TTRansmit suggested is as below:
Close emulator.
Go to AVD manager screen, edit your Emulator and go to Advanced Settings.
Select Cold boot as Boot option located in Emulated Performance section. This way you will be able to restart your emulator and get it unlocked without loosing data.
Power off (via holding power) on the device buttons and wipe data (from Android Virtual Device Manager) worked for me. It was turning off the Device Frame from the edit/Virtual Device Configuration screen of AVD that seemed to cause the problem.
I still did not solve this problem, somewhat. To get thru, what I did was I activated the Camera emulation then relaunched the emulator. On the lock screen, I dragged the Camera icon. The camera would crash and emulator would notify you about it thru a pop up dialog. Once you exit the dialog, it will go back to your homepage UNLOCKED! I know, it was weird but it worked.
I cannot get the "Devices" screen capture (as shown in DDMS perspective) to work with my Archos A80 (it works with a Samsung Galaxy).
I tried the suggestions mentioned in Android screen capture problem in Eclipse . When the running DDMS stand-alone as suggested there, I see i nthe windows console: W/ddms: Unable to get frame buffer: time out. I have already set the time out to 35000 in the DDMS options to no avail.
Any other suggestions?
I had the same problem. After I disabled "Use host GPU" it works like a charm.
I also cross-posted this answer in the question you linked: This works for me, also when Logcat ceases to work: When I disable and re-enable the debug mode on the device, everything is working again.
I think you should try this on eclipse
Go to Window -> show view -> other -> android -> devices, then click **OK**
Now select the device which you want to take screen shots and then click Capture Screen button on the rightside of the Devices screen.
I need to take screenshots of an android application running on an emulator in Eclipse Galileo.
Is there a built-in feature for this or do I have to download a plugin of some sorts?
You can take a screenshot if you open the Android view "devices" (under Window --> Show View --> Other... --> Android --> Devices). Click on the device or emulator you want to take a screen shot of, then click the "Screen Capture" button (it looks like a little picture, and it should be next to a stop sign button). Occasionally the device won't immediately load the picture; sometimes you have to close/reopen the screen capture window.
This is equivalent to taking a picture via DDMS, but you can do it in Eclipse instead of opening another application.
Screenshots on Android Devices using Eclipse, a Visual Guide
In the DDMS perspective in Eclipse there is a "Screen Capture" button. (Make sure you have your Android SDK and Eclipse plugin up to date, not sure this was always an option). Just press that button and a screenshot of whatever device you have DDMS connected to (either a real Android device or the emulator) will be created and opened in a new window where you can save it as a png.
You load the emulator with your app normally, through Eclipse, but you take the actual screenshot from DDMS, a tool that's included in your SDK, under the "tools" folder.
In DDMS, press Ctrl+S to take a screenshot.
1-open the DDMS prescriptive,the right click on mouse.
2-there click on export screenshot.
3-then it will show you option to save your file as .png file,with whatever name you like you may save it.
I just do a control print screen, which copies the image into the clipboard, then open MS Paint then do a control Z. Then you can crop and size it to your liking. Is this ok?