Android - capture screen of phone as a movie

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for the documentation of a project I would like to record the screen of my Nexus One as a movie or at least in form of a lot of images, which I can convert into a movie. Is that possible? Is there an app for it? For the moment I only know about this screen capture functions in the SDK's tool directory.

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 05 '10 at 07:35

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I've use two tools and both work well:

Androidscreencast fps 4-5
Droid@Screen fps 30

edited Jul 05 '10 at 07:35

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answered Jul 05 '10 at 07:33

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thanks !!! Works great !!! AndroidScreencast supports exactly what I need to record a movie. – Nils Jul 05 '10 at 16:38
On my Android v2.1 (ZTE Racer) I actually get a lot better results with Androidscreencast than I do with Droid@Screen! – Alex Feb 06 '12 at 21:45
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Android 4.4 added a screenrecord utility. See http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html#44-screen-recording – fadden Oct 31 '13 at 22:39

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 04 '10 at 23:39

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Do you need it from the device itself, or would from an emulator do? Here is a Nexus One Emulation Skin.

Here is information about the Dalvik Debug Monitor which claims to:

which provides port-forwarding services, screen capture on the device, thread and heap information on the device

(emphasis is mine) I am not an Android Developer, so I can't comment on the usefulness of the tool.

answered Jul 04 '10 at 23:39

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Thanks. Unfortunately I'm using multicast and wifi in my application so it's not possible to use the emulator for it. The ddms-tool is the one I meant by pointing to the SDK's tool directory above. Are there any other tools around? – Nils Jul 04 '10 at 23:54

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 05 '10 at 07:33

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As far I know you can only record screen of an Android device from a PC.

You need to use a tool that will put the phone's screen onto PC. For this you can use Droid@Screen . I use this tool for presentation purposes. Than on PC you use whatever screen recording app.

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FFMPEG is your friend, you can take screenshots and then make movie with this library – Duna Mar 11 '13 at 21:30

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 30 '13 at 11:46

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It is raithe handy to use android 4.x builtin method via adb shell screencap. I wrote a basic PyGtk adbcap wrapper to make it even more simple to use.

answered Sep 30 '13 at 11:46

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Android - capture screen of phone as a movie

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