How to take screenshot in android emulator

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From Android 4.0, it supports volumn down+power key to take screenshot and saved in gallery. But how to do this in android emulator.

I know in eclipse, there is a 'take screenshot' button, but this is not what I want. I need it in the emulator and saved in emulator.

I don't think that there is an other way to do it. (At least I did not come off an other way.) — Ahmad, Apr 09 '13 at 02:37
No... what i am doing is, add an app option to process the screenshot for the share intent after taking screenshot. I want to test it in emulator. — lseeo, Apr 09 '13 at 03:07
possible duplicate of [How to take emulator screenshots using Eclipse?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2065993/how-to-take-emulator-screenshots-using-eclipse) — Ozair Kafray, May 04 '15 at 09:39
This works fine if you are using Android Studio 2.0 or above: http://stackoverflow.com/a/35454101/6287190 — Anish Hirlekar, Oct 05 '16 at 14:42

score 74 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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As seen in this post: Screenshot of the Nexus One from adb?, you can also take a screenshot using adb:

 adb shell /system/bin/screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png
 adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png screenshot.png

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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answered Mar 01 '14 at 11:50

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nice. I also found a one liner: adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe 's/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g' > screen.png – Radu Simionescu Nov 28 '14 at 19:09
In the emulator, the resulting png is 0 bytes.. Any other way around this? – markj Jan 22 '15 at 09:45
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Note that this won't work if you enable the option "Use Host GPU". The screenshot will be an empty png (0 byte). Turn of "Use Host GPU" and it will work OK, although the emulator will be terribly slow (and might not even start with large screen sizes). – Jelle Fresen Feb 03 '15 at 09:58
Had to work a bit to find a writable directory, using some adb shell ls -l did help there - then this worked great. – MortenSickel May 20 '15 at 20:05
Found another one liner workaround [here](http://blog.shvetsov.com/2013/02/grab-android-screenshot-to-computer-via.html) – Aneesh Jun 11 '15 at 16:01

score 74 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '15 at 15:34

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just click in photo icon for take screenshot in android emulator

answered Dec 21 '15 at 15:34

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this is the relevant answer – Nazeel Jan 14 '16 at 07:21
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This makes more sense. Gives you more options. Thanks for the info – aphoe Feb 04 '16 at 02:22
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This is the BEST answer. Very straight forward. Thank you @birigy – BenJaminSila Feb 28 '16 at 08:37
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Does not work. Android Emulator does not look anything like that and does not have that button. – Brian Knoblauch Oct 11 '16 at 16:54
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@birigy OP specified "I need it in the emulator and saved in emulator" how do you save the image in the emulator with this method? – FeleMed Jan 11 '17 at 18:28

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 06 '20 at 15:42

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In new emulator you can do it by pushing camera icon. By default it saved in desktop.

answered Jan 06 '20 at 15:42

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This fails to answer the original request: "I need it in the emulator and saved in emulator." This solution will save the screenshot to your desktop, not the emulator. – Awnage Mar 06 '21 at 19:05

score 7 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 31 '15 at 11:53

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Window > Show View > Other. In the newly opened dialog box, under Android category, select Devices.

Now on the Devices panel, Click the button as shown in the Image and your screenshot is ready.

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answered Oct 07 '13 at 13:55

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As shown in what image? I found the icon, but it's not clear from the answer where it is. – Martin Sherburn May 30 '15 at 11:14

minhaz · Answer 5 · 2013-04-09T03:35:29.493

You can use ddms which has option to take screen shot. On DDMS -> Select Device -> Select Screen Capture

Edit AFIK its not possible but this scenario will solely depend emulator image. Device hotkey might work on some OS images. Try same key combination from emulator link.

If your emulator uses factory or same images then it should be possible. You can download factory images for your emulator. see available nexus images from this link also it is possible to download images from manufacturer site.

Alternatively you can take screen shot following way,

View content = findViewById(R.id.myView);
content.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap bitmap = content.getDrawingCache();

And later save this anywhere you like. This is not optimal solution and it will only print what you have inside your view.

I don't think this works. I want to take screenshot inside the emulator, so that I can share to other app directly. — lseeo, Apr 09 '13 at 02:58

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 05 '14 at 16:35

You can take a screenshot if you open the Android view "devices" (under Window --> Show View --> Other... --> Android --> Devices). Click on the device or emulator you want to take a screen shot of, then click the "Screen Capture" button (it looks like a little picture, and it should be next to a stop sign button). Occasionally the device won't immediately load the picture; sometimes you have to close/reopen the screen capture window.

This is equivalent to taking a picture via DDMS, but you can do it in Eclipse instead of opening another application.

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 18 '20 at 09:38

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Long Press on Power button from the left side menu. then you will have the option for the screenshot.

answered Mar 18 '20 at 09:38

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This is the appropriate solution on Android versions that support it. Older versions may only give you "Power Off" and "Restart" options. – Awnage Mar 06 '21 at 19:04

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 04 '20 at 18:29

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#!/bin/bash -f
while : ; do

echo "press the number of the screenshot to capture";

read i

adb shell /system/bin/screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png
adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png "${i}.png"

done

ctrl-c

answered Sep 04 '20 at 18:29

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered May 08 '21 at 09:26

You can simply press the shortcut key i.e. ctlr + S to take screenshot in the emulator.

Also there is a button given on the emulator to take the screenshot.

Simply press this button button and you'll have a screenshot of the emulator.

Hope that it helped you.

How to take screenshot in android emulator

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just click in photo icon for take screenshot in android emulator