The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" does support screenshots, albeit unelegantly
- while holding down Back, press Power. You may have to go into
another activity first before pressing Back and hitting Power at the
same time LOL.


On Jun 9, 2:07 am, Adam Ratana <adam.rat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just checked this approach out as a user had emailed me asking about
> screenshot capability.  This definitely does the trick, but a another poster
> pointed out, any output from certain components (in my case the camera
> preview surfaceview) does not show up.
> Perhaps the correct approach then is to capture the output of the surface
> views as bitmaps, and then draw on top of them, it's not quite an "instant"
> screenshot, but will probably serve the purpose?  I'll experiment with this
> and if I have good results will post back.
>
> Mark Murphy, you said this is impossible, did you mean in the sense of the
> way DDMS grabs the full-monty screenshot?
>
> I do hope that Android Handset/Tablet manufacturers catch on and implement
> hardware screen capturing options, a la iOS -- I don't believe screenshots
> are programmatically possible there either, for the same reasons, but the
> user can capture one at any time with a combination of hardware buttons.  It
> will prevent us from having to come up with adhoc solutions like this, and
> allow the screenshot process to be user driven, and thus alleviating
> security concerns.  I believe I read that either Samsung or Motorola may do
> this in future handsets?
>
>
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> On Friday, June 3, 2011 8:30:10 AM UTC-4, New Developer wrote:
>
> > Well after much trial and error I managed to capture the entire  layout  or
> > activity
> > using the following code
>
> > View   myView = findViewById(R.id.form);
> > Bitmap bmp    = Bitmap.createBitmap( myView.getMeasuredWidth() ,
> > myView.getMeasuredHeight() , Config.ARGB_8888);
> > Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bmp);
> > myView.draw(canvas);
> > try {
> >    FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream( "/sdcard/screen.jpg"  );
> >    bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, out);
> >    out.flush();
> >    out.close();
> > } catch (Exception e) {
> >    e.printStackTrace();
> > }
>
> > Not sure if this will help or not ?  NOTE: that you can also save as a PNG
> > if you want .
>
> > On Jun 3, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Bharathi raja wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Thanks for sharing code.
>
> > Code u shared will capture the entire screen, even if it is not widget
> > component.
> > [mean screen may have android or flash or web component]
> > i wanted to capture all the three.
>
> > Regards,
> > Bharathiraja R
>
> > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:39 AM, New Developer <secu...@isscp.com> wrote:
>
> >> Okay I output my bitmap to file  as PNG and it only shows the  visible
> >> portion of the layout
> >> What is currently seen on the screen  not the entire layout.
> >> So would I change the  onClick Code to capture the entire layout ?
>
> >> thanks in advance
>
> >> On Jun 2, 3:35 pm, New Developer <secu...@isscp.com> wrote:
> >> > I'm trying to do something similar
>
> >> > Inside my button's OnClick I have
>
> >> > View    myView  = arg0.getRootView();
> >> > myView.setDrawingCacheEnabled( true );
> >> > mPDF.addImage( myView.getDrawingCache() );
>
> >> > I'm hoping this will capture the screen to a bitmap
>
> >> > my PDF.addImage   is as follows:
>
> >> >         public void addImage(Bitmap bmp) {
> >> >                 ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> >> >                 bmp.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 100 , bos);
>
> >> >                 mImage += "5 0 obj \n" +
> >> >                                  "<< /Type /XObject\n" +
> >> >                                  "  /Subtype /Image\n" +
> >> >                                  "  /Width  " + bmp.getWidth()  + " \n"
> >> +
> >> >                                  "  /Height " + bmp.getHeight() + " \n"
> >> +
> >> >                                  "  /ColorSpace  /DeviceRGB\n" +
> >> >                                  "  /BitsPerComponent 8\n" +
> >> >                                  "  /Length " + bos.size()  + "\n" +
> >> >                                  "  /Filter  /ASCIIHexDecode\n" +
> >> >                                  ">>\n\n" +
> >> >                                  "stream\n";
>
> >> >                 mImage += bos.toString() + "\n";
>
> >> >                 mImage += "endstream\n" +
> >> >                                  "endobj\n\n";
> >> >         }
>
> >> > 1) Is the onClick the correct way to capture the screen to bitmap ?
> >> > 2) Is the PDF code the correct way to store an image inside a PDF ?
>
> >> > thanks in advance
>
> >> > On Jun 2, 3:11 pm, Paul Turchenko <paul.tu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > > Your process will need permission to do that. ADB has it by default,
> >> > > but regular apps don't. Unless you're rooted, you can't do that.
>
> >> > > On Jun 2, 4:27 am, Bharathiraja R <bharathira...@gmail.com>
> >> > > wrote:
>
> >> > > > Hi All,
>
> >> > > > Want sample code to capture screenshot of current screen from phone,
> >> > > > same like ddms (screen capture).
> >> > > > Please help me out.
>
> >> > > > Regards,
> >> > > > Bharathiraja R
>
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