Using ADB to capture the screen [duplicate]

Question

To save to a file on Windows, OSX and Linux

adb exec-out screencap -p > screen.png

To copy to clipboard on Linux use

adb exec-out screencap -p | xclip -t image/png

https://stackoverflow.com/a/37191719/75579 answer stopped working for me in Android 7 somehow. So I have to do it the manual way, so I want to share it.

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How to install

1. Put this snippet of code in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile file:

   snap_screen() {
     if [ $# -eq 0 ]
     then
       name="screenshot.png"
     else
       name="$1.png"
     fi
     adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/$name
     adb pull /sdcard/$name
     adb shell rm /sdcard/$name
     curr_dir=pwd
     echo "save to `pwd`/$name"
   }
   

2. Run source ~/.bash_profile or source ~/.profile command,

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How to use

Usage without specifying filename:

$ snap_screen
11272 KB/s (256237 bytes in 0.022s)
Saved to /Users/worker8/desktop/screenshot.png

Usage with a filename:

$ snap_screen mega_screen_capture
11272 KB/s (256237 bytes in 0.022s)
Saved to /Users/worker8/desktop/mega_screen_capture.png

Hope it helps!

** This will not work if multiple devices are plugged in

To start recording your device’s screen, run the following command:

adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/example.mp4

This command will start recording your device’s screen using the default settings and save the resulting video to a file at /sdcard/example.mp4 file on your device.

When you’re done recording, press Ctrl+C in the Command Prompt window to stop the screen recording. You can then find the screen recording file at the location you specified. Note that the screen recording is saved to your device’s internal storage, not to your computer.

The default settings are to use your device’s standard screen resolution, encode the video at a bitrate of 4Mbps, and set the maximum screen recording time to 180 seconds. For more information about the command-line options you can use, run the following command:

adb shell screenrecord --help

This works without rooting the device. Hope this helps.

You can read the binary from stdout instead of saving the png to the sdcard and then pulling it:

adb shell screencap -p | sed 's|\r$||' > screenshot.png

This should save a little time, but not much.

source: Read binary stdout data from adb shell?