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HOA 24: Screenshots and Screen Recordings - What To Do When Android Won't Let You
Manage episode 268541597 series 2618018
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
44 episodes
Manage episode 268541597 series 2618018
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
44 episodes
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