How do developers produce iOS Simulator animated .gifs?

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I often see this a lot on GitHub. How can I reproduce this animated .gif effect?

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check this: http://www.patridgedev.com/2013/09/27/capturing-your-ios-app-in-ios-simulator/ — alpere, Feb 05 '14 at 09:52
You can also use this https://github.com/onmyway133/GifCapture — onmyway133, Sep 22 '17 at 12:52
I did a small tool that achieves this. You can find it here: https://github.com/crvshlab/capa — Alex Salom, Dec 19 '18 at 15:21

Chris Ledet · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-19T18:56:54.513

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You can record your screen with QuickTime and then convert that MOV file into a GIF.

Open QuickTime and click on the "File" menu then "New Screen Recording".

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Drag your pointer to select the region of the screen you want to record, and then click the Start Recording button within the region.

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When you're finished, stop recording. To stop recording, click the stop button in the menu bar. Now, go back to "File" menu and click "Export".

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Save your screen recording as a movie.

Next, you can use Photoshop to open your screen recording and export it as a GIF.

edited Nov 19 '13 at 18:56

answered Nov 19 '13 at 18:02

Chris Ledet

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A tiny bit more detail about how those things are done (or even a couple of links to websites explaining how to do it) would be really helpful here. – Robert Harvey Nov 19 '13 at 18:09
I'm having a hard time finding a way to capture just one window or selection at a time. – mosca1337 Nov 19 '13 at 18:18
Added some pictures and better instructions. – Chris Ledet Nov 19 '13 at 18:57
If you don't have Photoshop you can use [this free site](http://www.zamzar.com/) instead – Eli Ganem Jun 23 '15 at 17:53
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Just wanted to update this for every one not having Photoshop or just wants to make this in just a few seconds: Use the Giphy App , its free and painless. Has screen recording and saves as a gif by default. https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/giphy-capture.-the-gif-maker/id668208984?mt=12 - Not affiliated with them, just found this solution. It's easer.. – mklb Feb 05 '17 at 14:31
There are some command line tools: `ffmpeg` and `gifsicle`. See: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/211219/35933 – Efren May 18 '17 at 08:10

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