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HOA 24: Screenshots and Screen Recordings - What To Do When Android Won't Let You

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Developers have many reasons for preventing Android users from taking screenshots or screen recordings of in-app content. Usually its for security but sometimes its to protect copyrighted material. Jason Howell walks through some examples of how this is enforced, and a few ways to work around those limitations.

  • What kinds of apps prevent screenshots.
  • Why they do that!
  • Screenshot shortcut on most devices.
  • Assistant's Screen Context feature.
  • What is Digital Right Management?
  • The open-source app scrcpy.
  • Using a computer to take a screenshot in an app that prevents it.
  • The analog hole.

scrcpy - github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
Homebrew for Mac - https://brew.sh

Host: Jason Howell

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-android

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Content provided by Leo Laporte. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Leo Laporte or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

Developers have many reasons for preventing Android users from taking screenshots or screen recordings of in-app content. Usually its for security but sometimes its to protect copyrighted material. Jason Howell walks through some examples of how this is enforced, and a few ways to work around those limitations.

  • What kinds of apps prevent screenshots.
  • Why they do that!
  • Screenshot shortcut on most devices.
  • Assistant's Screen Context feature.
  • What is Digital Right Management?
  • The open-source app scrcpy.
  • Using a computer to take a screenshot in an app that prevents it.
  • The analog hole.

scrcpy - github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
Homebrew for Mac - https://brew.sh

Host: Jason Howell

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-android

  continue reading

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