A good screen capture tool is essential for Android developers. It is invaluable while making presentations as I recently discovered during my talk about Firefox Mobile Testing.
Thanks to flyingclimber for introducing me to Droid@Screen. This tool enables you to display your android screen on your desktop in portrait/landscape mode and does image scaling too. Making screen shots and videos of your android device is also supported. If the video performance is not so good, try changing the frame-rate settings.
To use Droid@Screen, you need Java and Android SDK installed on your computer. Download this droidAtScreen-0.5.1.jar file from here or from this mirror and run it by typing this command in your terminal. Make sure you have enabled 'USB Debugging' on your Android device.
# Download the program
$ wget http://blog.ribomation.com/download/http://blog.ribomation.com/wp-content/files/droidAtScreen-1.0.1.jar
# Launch Droid@Screen from command-line
$ java -jar droidAtScreen-0.5.1.jar
The software prompts you for the location of your Android SDK adb.
Connect your phone and select the device name from the Droid@Screen menu. And you are done.
Thanks for the tips.
ReplyDeleteYou are most welcome Sarah.
ReplyDeletethe download doesnt work could a link on media fire or something
DeleteThanks, Updated the blog post with new download link.
Deletehttp://ifile.it/7d638nv
your link on http://ifile.it tells me "no such file".
ReplyDeleteThe iFile link seems to be deleted. :(
DeleteYou can download the file directly from the author's blog post link
This blog seems to be no longer available. Can someone post an active link to droid@screen?
ReplyDeleteI have shared droid@screen using file-sharing services but they are removed.
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ReplyDeleteYou can download this tool from my mirror on github.
Deletehttps://github.com/arky/droidAtScreen
thanks a lot for mirror!!
Deletejust downloaded the jar file, but when I run it in a command window using
Deletejava -jar droidatscreen-0.1.5.jar
I get a "invalid or corrupt jarfile ..." message.
Please download the file again and try it.
DeleteThank you, Arky, for placing it on GitHub.
ReplyDeleteWow
ReplyDeleteGreat job,
This is so useful for me
Thanks for all
Does this work with HTC Rezound? Have ICS 4.0.
ReplyDeleteTry it and let us know Jonathan
Deletewhy cant i locate the ADB on the android-sdk folder?
ReplyDeleteYou can find the adb tool in /platform-tools/. Please look at the new SDK
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HTC Rezound does work but I had to download HTC Sync application because it also included USB driver for the Rezound.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great app that I have been using for quite a while!
Hey Arky! Thnx :-)
ReplyDeletehi does the latency that i face has to do with my low ram, or by default it cannot achieve great results while capturing video( btw i used the top frame rating setting)
ReplyDeleteNice find.
ReplyDeletenice app! how to increase frame rate?
ReplyDeleteYou can set the frame rate to 'Fastest' in Options > Frame Rate menu option.
ReplyDeleteVery nice blog...that help me to display android screen on my desktop. This process also help to other people who need to do it. I also say thanks for sharing this information.
ReplyDeleteThanks, but I have a problem. ScreenDroid shows only notification bar, not the whole screen content.
ReplyDeleteDo you know what is the problem?
I have a problem, screendroid shows only notification bar, not the whole screen content.
ReplyDeleteDo you know what is the problem?
Any idea how to stop the red flickering on the screen? I have a N4. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what the problem is. Can you take a screen shot?
Deletei cant find the directory for the adb thing. sdk manager and jar file are installed. i can't find a path for adb executable.
ReplyDeleteYou'll find 'adb' program under platform-tools directory.
Deletei followed all the steps but nothing happened after mapping the sdk using driod@screen. please help. thanks.
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