As stated by another poster, this technique will not give you a _screen_ shot but a image of GUI elements within the activity. They are not quite the same. Also, some techniques for grabbing frame-buffer data can retrieve partially-drawn frames.
The only way I've found to reliably obtain a full-screen shot is via the DDMS library or equivalent (monkeyrunner,ChimpChat). -- Lew On Thursday, November 24, 2011 5:14:56 AM UTC-8, Mukesh Srivastav wrote: > > Let me give u [sic] an Example [sic]: > > Let's say you have a layout and it has a parent layout could be > (Relative,Absoulte or LinerLayout). Take the id out of it. Below are the > steps to do this. > > Step 1: Declare a Variable > > View screen; > > Step 2: in public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) Method > > screen = (View) findViewById(R.id.captureimagelayout); // Change your > Layout id here. > > Step 3: in the Button onclick Listener do this. > > screen.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true); > Bitmap imgToSave = screen.getDrawingCache(); > > > Step 4: in the Step 3# you have the Bitmap object, use File:\\ operations > to save the bitmap. you are done. > As simple as that. > > > Regards, > Mukesh Kumar, > Android Consultant/Freelancer. > India,Hyderabad. > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:57 AM, vani reddy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > How to take the screeenshot of android device programmatically..Apart >> from >> > using in DDMS. >> >> This is not supported by Android. There are ways to capture the image >> of your own activity (I think using the drawing cache), but you cannot >> programmatically capture images of other applications, for obvious >> security and privacy reasons. >> >> -- >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >> >> Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
