Sscreen

A tiny tool for taking screenshot or screen recoding of android device, by ADB commands.

Aim

Android's ADB already provide two convienent tools: screencap,screenrecord to take screenshot and screen record. If you want get a screenshot of current display, you have to:

adb shell screencap /sdcard/screenshot.png
adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png ./
# remove it if you want
adb shell rm /sdcard/screenshot.png

however,it's annoying to type two(three) commands to get a screenshot(record) everytime.So,here is sscreen.

Install

Download the sscreen.py and place it on your PATH

Usage

Before you get started, make sure adb is on your path:

export PATH=$PATH:<path to Android SDK>/platform-tools
export PATH=$PATH:<path to Android SDK>/tools

Examples

# take a screenshot:
sscreen.py ~/Download/

# record screen
sscreen.py -r ~/Download

# record a 10 seconds video with size 1280x720, 5Mbps
sscreen -r --size 1280x720 --bit-rate 5000000 --time-limt 10 ~/Downloads/ 

Use sscreen.py -h for more details, see also adb docs