G33K-TRICKS: How to Record Android Screen [without using any app]

Friday, June 24, 2016

How to Record Android Screen [without using any app]


Record Actions performed on your Android phone Screen


Record Android ScreenaSay, you want to record the screen of your android phone i.e you want to record what actions did you perform. Its very simple.

Pre-requiste for this trick would be:
You must have an adb tool (it comes with android SDK)
You can get the tool by going through this page.

Open command prompt
Type below command and press Enter

adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/<filename>.mp4

That's all you need to do. Till this above command is running, all the actions performed over your android phone will be recorded in the path you have specified (in this case, /sdcard folder)
To stop recording stop the above command by pressing Ctrl+C.
You can play the video made with any player supporting mp4 format.

If you want to pull the file onto your system , you need to type

adb pull /sdcard/<filename>.mp4 <DestinationPathonSystem>

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Will I connect my phone to my PC using a USB code?

Abhijeet said...

If I understood your question properly,

Yes, you need to connect your phone via USB cable to PC so that you can run the given "adb" commands.