How to Programmatically Take a Screenshot in Android?
The following code snippet will help you to take a screenshot programmatically in Android. First you need to add the write file permission to save the captured screenshot.
June 13, 2016 · 1 min read
The following code snippet will help you to take a screenshot programmatically in Android. First you need to add the write file permission to save the captured screenshot.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>Add the following Java code to capture the screenshot of running in an Activity.
private void captureScreenshot() {
try {
// image saving sd card path
String mPath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString() + "/" + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".jpg";
// create bitmap screen capture
View view = getWindow().getDecorView().getRootView();
view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getDrawingCache());
view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
File imageFile = new File(mPath);
FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(imageFile);
int quality = 100;
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, quality, outputStream);
outputStream.flush();
outputStream.close();
} catch (Throwable e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}