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

2020/7/30
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Hands-On Android (Audio)

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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)

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