Android Screen Capture

Capture the screen of an Android device in an MP4 file that you can download

 

Android Screen Capture is an easy and powerful tool to capture video on Android devices.

Android Screen Capture is mainly designed to:

  • start/stop capture video simply by requesting URLs from the integrated local HTPP server
  • download the captured video from the Android device to a PC
  • open/close a URL (like http://www.youtube.com ) on the Android device
  • choose the video encoding bitrate (from 1 Mb/s to 15 Mb/s)

Android Screen Capture enables a video quality measurement/monitoring solution like Video Quality Monitor (VQM) to measure the Quality of Experience (QoE) on Android devices.

Starting Android Screen Capture

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Android Screen Capture installs itself and operates as a normal application.

When you first start Android Screen Capture, the application displays the End User License Agreement and asks for various permissions (capture, file writing, Internet access, etc.).

In parallel, Android Screen Capture runs an HTTP server on port 8000.

Main window

The main window enables to:

  • manually start/stop capture ("Start capture", "Stop capture")
  • see the properties of the captured file ("Properties")
  • play the captured video file ("Play file")
  • open URLs (via a web browser or via the YouTube application for example)
  • open the home page of the integrated HTTP server ("Web interface")

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Integrated HTTP server

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Android Screen Capture includes its own HTTP server. The main functions of this HTTP server are:

  • start/stop capture
  • download the captured video

This web server also enables to open URLs (in a web browser or in an application like YouTube), to restart Android Screen Capture and to play/stop playing the captured video on the device display.

Control from a PC

When the Android device is plugged via USB on a host PC or if the Android device is on the same network as a PC, this PC can:

  • start Android Screen Capture
  • send requests from/receive replies to the integrated web server
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Conclusion

Android Screen Capture is a convenient tool to capture the screen of an Android device by running commands/calling URLs from a connected PC.

Thanks to the captured videos and used with a video quality measurement/monitoring solution like Video Quality Monitor (VQM), Android Screen Capture enables to monitor the Quality of Experience (QoE) on Android devices.

Indeed, you can create a script in which you: