[ale] How do I do screen captures on android?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi all,

Thanks for the tips and, specifically, thanks for the last one.

That's exactly what I needed.  I never in 20 million years would think of pressing that particular key / button combination without asking someone or googling it.  (What's wrong with PrtSc if you have a keyboard attached?)

In my case, it stored a file in /mnt/sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots.  The filename was based on the date and time, as in:

Screenshot_2013-09-24-12-24-35.png

Thanks very much for the help.  You guys are great.

Sincerely,

Ron



Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

>I have cheap D2 tablet with Android 4.1.x screen capture is built in.
>
>quote from forum "It's very easy to take screenshots in Android 4.0.
>For the majority of devices, all you have to do is hold the power and
>volume down button simultaneously."
>
>On 9/24/13, Ron Frazier (ALE) <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com>
>wrote:
>> In that case, I have 4.0.3.  How would I access the feature?  I need
>to get
>> a picture of the screen into a file.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
>> Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>4.0 is when it started.
>>>
>>>On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>>> If you run the latest Android, capturing the screen is built-in.
>>>> For older Android versions, a rooted device and special app is
>>>necessary.
>>>> Sorry, don't remember exactly which 4.x release included this.
>>>>
>>>> On 09/24/2013 10:53 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the acer a500 tablet.  I need to take screen captures of
>some
>>>of the screens in certain programs for my records.  Anybody know a
>good
>>>way to do that.  In Windows or Ubuntu or Mint, I'd just hit the print
>>>screen button.  While there is a PrtSc button on my bluetooth
>keyboard,
>>>I don't know if it does anything.  There is no obvious response
>either
>>>pressing the button by itself or with the alt key.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
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