Hands-On Android 24: Screenshots and Screen Recordings




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Summary: <p>Developers have many reasons for preventing Android users from taking screenshots or screen recordings of in-app content. Usually its for security but sometimes its to protect copyrighted material. Jason Howell walks through some examples of how this is enforced, and a few ways to work around those limitations.</p><ul> <li>What kinds of apps prevent screenshots.</li> <li>Why they do that!</li> <li>Screenshot shortcut on most devices.</li> <li>Assistant's Screen Context feature.</li> <li>What is Digital Right Management?</li> <li>The open-source app scrcpy.</li> <li>Using a computer to take a screenshot in an app that prevents it.</li> <li>The analog hole.</li> </ul><p>scrcpy - <a href="http://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy">github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy</a><br>Homebrew for Mac - <a href="https://brew.sh">https://brew.sh</a></p> <p><strong>Host:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-android">https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-android</a></p>