How to take screenshot programmatically on Android?

Question

I want to take a fullscreen screenshot programmatically , for example, one of the android home screen or a menu. How can I get a view of the home screen in my application? I want to take it programmatically!!! It doesn't matter if it requires root mode!

Help me please and sorry for my English!

Oh snap! Just realized (after posting my answer of course -_-): Do you mean from an android application? — , Sep 22 '11 at 12:04
What about this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2661536/screenshot-android — Tima, Sep 22 '11 at 12:18
> Did you try > [this](http://www.androidcentral.com/taking-screenshots-without-root) > ? Or in french you can [read > that](http://www.actualitemobile.com/forum/index.php?topic=9490.0) EDIT : So if you want to programm that, you may following these links : - a [command line solution](http://android.amberfog.com/?p=168) (usable in Java) - you may get somes informations [here](http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/development/tools/screenshot/src/com/android/screenshot/Screenshot.java) — Dsandre, Sep 22 '11 at 12:01

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '11 at 13:04

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Use following code

Bitmap bitmap;
View v1 = MyView.getRootView();
v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(v1.getDrawingCache());
v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);

Here MyView is the View through which we need include in screen.

answered Dec 14 '11 at 13:04

Nirav Dangi

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This just take screenshot of active application only. Not entire android screen. – Nguyen Minh Binh Sep 19 '12 at 08:53
@NguyenMinhBinh .. please take a look..http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3067586/how-to-capture-the-android-device-screen-content/8504958#8504958 ..... this may help you... – Nirav Dangi Jun 14 '13 at 10:07

Viswanath Lekshmanan · Answer 2 · 2013-03-04T12:03:45.853

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Follow the link https://code.google.com/p/android-screenshot-library/downloads/list it allows you entire screenshot of any screen not only your app

adb shell /system/bin/screencap -p /sdcard/img.png this is a shell command take screenshot simple and fast

Try this

Process sh = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su", null,null);
   OutputStream  os = sh.getOutputStream();
   os.write(("/system/bin/screencap -p " + "/sdcard/img.png").getBytes("ASCII"));
            os.flush();
            os.close();
            sh.waitFor();

edited Mar 04 '13 at 12:03

answered Mar 03 '13 at 14:35

Viswanath Lekshmanan

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I have 2 devices (Android v2.2 & v2.3.3) which have no `screencap` file in `/system/bin` directory. So it doesn't suit me. – Nolesh Mar 05 '13 at 23:53
@ares u can try the above link. – Viswanath Lekshmanan Mar 17 '13 at 11:11
would u more describe cz i tried but i'm not getting the result ? – Akarsh M May 22 '13 at 12:01
@user2078315 which version of android u r running, make sure inside /system/bin a file named screencap file exist , then run the above code in program it should work – Viswanath Lekshmanan Jun 11 '13 at 01:39

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 28 '13 at 06:10

In the adb shell you can use command as

adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screen.png
adb pull /sdcard/screen.png
adb shell rm /sdcard/screen.png

I found this code on this guide on How to take a screenshot on Android.You can refer it for more details.Hope this helps.

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