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mahi
mahi

Reputation: 2571

Taking screenshot on Emulator from Android Studio

I know this probably might be the silliest question but still, I don't know how to take a screenshot of Emulator via Android Studio. I recently switched from Eclipse to Android Studio and I could not find it anywhere, I tried to search on web too but no help.

Upvotes: 257

Views: 238983

Answers (16)

Alex Sullivan
Alex Sullivan

Reputation: 572

For folks looking to trigger screenshots to test things like the new screenshot detector API, which AFAICT won't be triggered via the emulator screenshot button, you can use the accessibility menu's screenshot button. Turn on the accessibility menu by searching for it in settings and then swipe to the second page and you'll see a screenshot button which will trigger the screenshot capture API.

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Upvotes: 1

Daniel Opiyo
Daniel Opiyo

Reputation: 315

It is quite easy with Android Studio Electric Eel | 2022.1.1

Run your emulator and at the top you will have a set of Icons select the Camera Icon which will trigger a screenshot and a preview with various options to modify or edit your picture before saving it.

Initial First Image

This is the new Window you get after clicking the Camera Icon which has an option to change the location of where to save the screenshot.

Window for screenshot preview

Upvotes: 1

Fernando
Fernando

Reputation: 3

On windows: I found that my firewall blocks write access to screenshot. A workaround is to take a snapshot and find it in: C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME.android\avd\YOUR_EMULATOR_NAME.avd\snapshots\snap_SNAPSHOT_TIME

Upvotes: 0

luckyhandler
luckyhandler

Reputation: 11329

Starting with Android Studio 2.0 you can do it with the new emulator:

New Android Emulator from Android Studio 2.0

Just click 3 "Take Screenshot". Standard location is the desktop.

Or

  1. Select "More"
  2. Under "Settings", specify the location for your screenshot
  3. Take your screenshot

UPDATE 22/07/2020

If you use the emulator inside Android Studio which is possible since Android Studio 4.1 click here to save the screenshot in your standard location:

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Upvotes: 379

Atiqur Rahman
Atiqur Rahman

Reputation: 76

  1. Go to

Emulator settings > Settings > General > Screenshot save location > 'your file path'

then select your desire location to save your screenshot.

  1. After setup your emulator settings then press:

ctrl + s

to save your screenshot.

hope its work.

Upvotes: 2

Hassan Raza
Hassan Raza

Reputation: 561

Long Press on Power button, then you will have the option for the screenshot. Power Button Emulator

Option for screenshot in emulator

Upvotes: 16

Doilio Matsinhe
Doilio Matsinhe

Reputation: 2280

  1. In Android Studio, select View > Tool Windows > Logcat to open Logcat.
  2. Select the device and a process from the drop-down at the top of the window.
  3. Click Screen Capture on the left side of the window.

For more info Check this link

Upvotes: 5

Gustavo Rossi Muller
Gustavo Rossi Muller

Reputation: 1142

Please use ctrl+s on Windows or ⌘s on Mac (while the emulator is focused). Your Desktop should be the default save location.

Upvotes: 35

vovkas
vovkas

Reputation: 1109

Android Device Monitor was deprecated in Android Studio 3.1 and removed from Android Studio 3.2. To start the standalone Device Monitor application in Android Studio 3.1 and lower you can run android-sdk/tools/monitor.bat

Upvotes: 0

Avi
Avi

Reputation: 561

Keeping the emulator on top of all other task on the desktop and pressing "Ctrl + S", also captures the screen shot and it is saved on default(if, not edited) path(i.e. C:\Users\username\Desktop).

Or

you can just click on the "Camera" icon highlighted in "green", which we have with the emulator.

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Upvotes: 37

cgr
cgr

Reputation: 4636

Click on Camera icon that is there on the right to emulator in action icons list. This is available on latest studio, though I am not sure from which version.

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Upvotes: 1

Neutron Stein
Neutron Stein

Reputation: 1975

You can capture a screenshot from Android Studio as shown in the image below. You can take capture from Android Studio

Upvotes: 74

Akash Jagtap
Akash Jagtap

Reputation: 404

1.First run your Application 2.Go to Tool-->Android-->Android Device Monitor Check image for more detail

Upvotes: 3

André Ricardo
André Ricardo

Reputation: 3172

Besides using Android Studio, you can also take a screenshot with adb which is faster.

adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screen.png
adb pull /sdcard/screen.png
adb shell rm /sdcard/screen.png

Shorter one line alternative in Unix/OSX

adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe 's/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g' > screen.png

Original blog post: Grab Android screenshot to computer via ADB

Upvotes: 33

Fidel López
Fidel López

Reputation: 1032

To take a screenshot of your app:

  1. Start your app as described in Run your App in Debug Mode.
  2. Click Android 6:Android button to open the Android DDMS tool window.
  3. Click Screen Capture Camera button on the left side of the Android DDMS tool window.
  4. Optional: To add a device frame around your screenshot, enable the Frame screenshot option.
  5. Click Save.

Upvotes: 72

Scott Barta
Scott Barta

Reputation: 80040

Click on the Monitor (DDMS Included) button on the toolbar -- it looks like the Android bugdroid:

IDE window showing Monitor button

That will bring up the DDMS window. Select the emulator instance from the Devices tab on the left, and click on the camera button in the toolbar above it, next to the stop sign icon:

Monitor window

Note that if your emulator is running Android 4.4 or I think 4.3, then screen capture functionality is broken -- you'll have to use a physical device to get screenshots on those OS versions. It works okay for Android prior to 4.3. That bug is https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62284

Upvotes: 94

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