I am trying to get a screen shot of the android studio emulator running on API-10. Unfortunately I am getting the following message:
Can anyone explain why is that so and is there any other easy workaround to this except Print Screen (since it does not produce the same image quality and one needs to crop the image manually)?
The solution has been within the Android Studio itself:
1- Click on Android Device Monitor
2- On the left, there is a tab named Devices . Find your emulator name and click on it.
3- In front of the Devices tab there are a set of icons. Find the Screen Capture icon and click on it.
4- After the Device Screen Capture window opens, wait until your emulator's current screen is captured.
5- At last, you can save the quality image by clicking on the Save button.
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about android capture.
The function of the application is that when you press a specific button,
One overlay button located at the top of the home screen of the device is generated.
When I press the overlay button, I want to capture the screen of the device I'm currently viewing, not the application screen.
I want to capture the top screen, but only the activity done by the application is captured.
How should I capture the screen I'm currently viewing?
I tried researching this problem for days before but I do not think that it is possible. Then I have an idea that instead of try to screen shot "outside" of app, we can use Service to keep our app alive, make back ground transparent and detect screenshot action of device. You may want to try com.abangfadli.shotwatch
I'm following Udacity's Developing Android Apps class, and in their video it shows an icon at the top of Android Studio for a shortcut to Android Device Monitor. My shortcut icon is not there so I had to search to find it.
I'm trying to add it to the toolbar by right clicking and going into "Customize Toolbars and Menus" but I can't find anything. I googled multiple different things and can't seem to find the answer. Not sure if this is a recent change from Android Studio updates.
Is there a way to add this to the top toolbar? Thanks!
fortunately it is :)
open the customize menu and toolbars by right clicking the toolbar.
Navigate to Main toolbar-Android.MainToolBarSdkGroup and then click Add after... (in fact you can choose whatever position you like most).
Then simply choose All actions-Main menu-Tools-Android-Android device monitor
Profit – robot is there :)
My preview of the phone on Android Studio is broken. It only shows the screen and it has this weird white bar under the actual parent view. Can somebody tell me what's causing it? Here's an image:
In the newer versions of Android studio, you can show device frame just by pressing "F" from your keyboard.
That's all!
Go to setting icon (first from right with options ) => Select "Include device frame if available"
That happens when your root ViewGroup is ScrollView. This is probably so that we can see the entirely of the layout while designing. To toggle it, simply click on your root ScrollView and click on the left-most button in the options that appear below the phone selection dropdown in layout-editor. I've added the image for reference:
I would like a way to display an image in full screen mode (without the home and status bar showing, images are same resolution as the device) on an Android device through ADB. The image could be either on the device itself of on the computer I am using to adb to the device, if that makes a difference (my first thought was that the image would be on the computer, but I've found some answers that leverage the device's storage and that would be fine).
What I would eventually like to do is set up a script that displays an image in full screen and iterates to the next file on a keypress.
This answer might be useful, showing how to display an image, but it doesn't show the image in full screen mode.
Possible ideas I have had, but don't exactly know how to implement:
Create an app that displays an image full screen and launch it with the required image as a parameter (not sure how to link the picture and the app from adb though).
Use the -n parameter seen in this post and specify an app that only displays images in full screen (could maybe make this app, but a pre-made solution would be easiest).
Any help/advice/guidance would be appreciated.
What that command is doing is starting an Activity that claims it can VIEW jpgs and launching it (passing it the file name via intent). It is not a built in android functionality, its launching an app. For you to display fullscreen as you wish, you need an app that does that, either by default or when some optional parameter is passed. There is no app like that you can 100% count on being installed. SO if you really need it, you'll need to write an app that does it. It should be a pretty trivial app at least- 1 image view and a fullscreen style is all you need.
I am currently working on a calculator application for android. I am finding it difficult to conveniently take a screen shot of the app. So i have put my calculator on pause so I can write a simple screen shot app. It runs in the notification bar and when you click the notification the notification bar slides away and a few seconds later a snapshot is taken. This works perfectly. Now I would like to add functionality to take snapshots even for full screen apps. I have seen apps that put a sliding drawer on the screen onto of whatever app is running. That is there is always a button on the screen no matter what you are doing that when you click/drag it that sliding drawer came out. How did they do that? It should be a simple process to use a button instead of a drawer and when it's clicked hide it, snapshot and unhide it.
So my question bsically is
How can i put a usable button on the screen that stays above whatever app is running, even the homescreen
I realize I'm not answering your question directly, but if you simply want to get a screen capture of your application running, I would use ddms in your android tools directory. It has a menu option for getting a screen grab. I use it frequently.
Just go to Device > Screen Capture
More details here :
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/debugging/ddms.html