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Taking screenshot on Emulator from Android Studio

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Where are Android Studio emulator screenshots stored?

Press for 3 dots. Then Press the Settings and in top right corner you will see the screenshot folder location.

What is snapshot in Android emulator?

Beginning Android by Saving an emulator's state to a snapshot file enables the emulator to be started quickly the next time you try to launch it, effectively bypassing the lengthy boot-up time. This is especially useful for the Android 3.0 emulator, which can take up to five minutes to boot up.

How do you screenshot on Andy emulator?

You can simply press the shortcut key i.e. ctlr + S to take screenshot in the emulator. Also there is a button given on the emulator to take the screenshot. Simply press this button button and you'll have a screenshot of the emulator.


Starting with Android Studio 2.0 you can do it with the new emulator:

New Android Emulator from Android Studio 2.0

Just click 3 "Take Screenshot". Standard location is the desktop.

Or

  1. Select "More"
  2. Under "Settings", specify the location for your screenshot
  3. Take your screenshot

UPDATE 22/07/2020

If you use the emulator inside Android Studio which is possible since Android Studio 4.1 click here to save the screenshot in your standard location:

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Click on the Monitor (DDMS Included) button on the toolbar -- it looks like the Android bugdroid:

IDE window showing Monitor button

That will bring up the DDMS window. Select the emulator instance from the Devices tab on the left, and click on the camera button in the toolbar above it, next to the stop sign icon:

Monitor window

Note that if your emulator is running Android 4.4 or I think 4.3, then screen capture functionality is broken -- you'll have to use a physical device to get screenshots on those OS versions. It works okay for Android prior to 4.3. That bug is https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62284


You can capture a screenshot from Android Studio as shown in the image below. You can take capture from Android Studio


To take a screenshot of your app:

  1. Start your app as described in Run your App in Debug Mode.
  2. Click Android 6:Android button to open the Android DDMS tool window.
  3. Click Screen Capture Camera button on the left side of the Android DDMS tool window.
  4. Optional: To add a device frame around your screenshot, enable the Frame screenshot option.
  5. Click Save.