Capture a screenshot of an app such as Hello as it runs on an emulator or on an Android device (phone or tablet).
Run the app in Android Studio. When the app appears on the screen of the emulator, click on the word “Android” at the left side of the lower edge of Android Studio. Then click on the camera icon (with a circular blue lens) towards the bottom of the left edge of Android Studio.
Screen Capture
Obtaining screenshot from device…
Loading screenshot into memory…
Press Save in the lower right corner.
Running a Samsung Galaxy S5 in the Genymotion emulator,
the resulting image was 1080 × 1920 pixels.
I saved it as a
.png
file.
Click on the emulator and press
Command-Shift-4.
The cursor will turn into a crosshair with
x, y
coördinates.
Press the space bar to turn the cursor into a camera and whiten the emulator.
Click on the emulator and you will hear the sound of a camera shutter.
A 641 × 989 image of the emulator will be saved on the Desktop
in a
.png
file whose name is in the format
Screen Shot 2015-03-18 at 8.45.20 PM.png
You can also capture a
.tiff
image of the emulator using the application
Grab.app.
Select
Capture → Window
Window Grab
When the window you want is ready,
click Choose Window,
then click on the window to capture it.
File → Save…
Give the new file a name ending with
.tiff.
You can convert the 529 × 877
TIFF
image to
PNG
with
Preview.app.
Click on the emulator to make it the active window.
Hold down the right
Alt
key while pressing
Prt Sc.Shift
key.)
This copies the emulator window to the Clipboard.
To see the Clipboard, paste it into the application
Paint
and save it as a PNG.
Here’s an old exmaple.
