Android - December 8th, 2010
How To Record Video or Capture Screenshots On Android Device
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Big step has been added to Android feature, because today you can capture screenshots or record video from Android phones devices easily. Thanks for technospot.com who want to share this steps, they have tested on Motorola Milestone and Android based smartphone. If you want you can also try it on you Android device, just check this step out.
- Download and install Java SE Development Kit (JDK)
- Download Android SDK for Windows Platform
- Extract Android SDK, run the SDKManager.exe, it will open a window titled as ‘Choose Packages to Install’, Cancel it, and click on the ‘Available Packages’ from left panel on the window titled as ‘Android SDK and AVD Manager’, there select the ‘USB Driver package’ and install it.
- Done with this, now connect your Android phone via USB to your Windows PC.
- Turn on the USB debugging option on your phone, i.e. go to ‘Setting-> Applications -> Development’, there you will get the USB Debugging option, turn it on.
- Go to the folder where you extracted the Android SDK, there run the ddms.bat, this can be found in the ‘Tools’ folder.
- Running ddms will launch the ‘Dalvik Debug Monitor’; make sure your device is being displayed there under the list, select your device by clicking on it.
- Now click on the ‘Device’ tab, to get the ‘Screen Capture’ option.
Here you get all the options, like Save, Copy, Rotate, etc.
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However, doing all the above said steps didn’t help me out, but looks like it works for most of the Android based Phones, I had to download and install the Droid driver as well, if you have a Droid device, consider doing this in first step.
Now, the described steps will allow you to take the Screenshot of your Android Phone using the Dalvik Debug Monitor, by running the ddms.bat file.
Application to take screenshot / record video of Android Phone
There is another application which seems to be a better option, named as Android Screenshots and Screen Capture, you can download it from here.
Once you are done with all the steps above, run the downloaded AndroidScreenCapureSetup.v1.1.exe. Later launch the Android Screenshots and Screen Capture. Under the file tab, select ‘Set Android SDK Folder’ and give the path of the folder where you have extracted the Android SDK.
Advantage of this application is
- Apart from other functionalities provided by the Dalvik Debug Monitor, it allows you a full screen view.
- It dynamically changes the view, by showing you current screen, which means you can use it for Screen Casting as well, have a look.
So this is the whole process i bring form technospot.net to share with you. So try this out and share your experience with us.