taking screenshot in libgdx

Question

I have an application in which i want to take the screenshot of the game screen and save it as an image and upload to Facebook. I am using Libgdx and my focus is android.

Can anyone help me that how to take screenshot of the game screen programmatically and save it as an image ??

Answer 1

Simple solution:

Image screenShot = new Image(ScreenUtils.getFrameBufferTexture());

Answer 2

It is now fairly easy. Libgdx provides an example, which can be found on the page Taking a Screenshot.

I had to add one statement to get it working. The image could not be saved directly to /screenshot1.png. Simply prepend Gdx.files.getLocalStoragePath().

Source Code:

public class ScreenshotFactory {

    private static int counter = 1;
    public static void saveScreenshot(){
        try{
            FileHandle fh;
            do{
                fh = new FileHandle(Gdx.files.getLocalStoragePath() + "screenshot" + counter++ + ".png");
            }while (fh.exists());
            Pixmap pixmap = getScreenshot(0, 0, Gdx.graphics.getWidth(), Gdx.graphics.getHeight(), false);
            PixmapIO.writePNG(fh, pixmap);
            pixmap.dispose();
        }catch (Exception e){           
        }
    }

    private static Pixmap getScreenshot(int x, int y, int w, int h, boolean yDown){
        final Pixmap pixmap = ScreenUtils.getFrameBufferPixmap(x, y, w, h);

        if (yDown) {
            // Flip the pixmap upside down
            ByteBuffer pixels = pixmap.getPixels();
            int numBytes = w * h * 4;
            byte[] lines = new byte[numBytes];
            int numBytesPerLine = w * 4;
            for (int i = 0; i < h; i++) {
                pixels.position((h - i - 1) * numBytesPerLine);
                pixels.get(lines, i * numBytesPerLine, numBytesPerLine);
            }
            pixels.clear();
            pixels.put(lines);
        }

        return pixmap;
    }
}