take device snapshot programmatically in android

Question

How can I take snapshot of device like this tablet has button in menu bar to take a snap shot of device screen? the device has android 4.1.1 this same functionality is wanted to implement in my application to capture the screen snapshot.

note that:

• I don't want to use Layout.getDrawingCache();
• I only want to access this method as the OS uses.or a solution like this
• I do not need to root device.so please do not provide root solutions

Answer 1

just have a look on this https://code.google.com/p/android-screenshot-library/
i hope it usefull for you...