How to take snapshot of screen not only app in Android with code

Question

I've developed app that takes screenshot. But it only takes snapshot of app. I want to take snapshot out of app. I've researched answers but I don't find answer yet. Here is my code.

View view = getWindow().getDecorView().getRootView();
view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getDrawingCache());
view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
saveImageToAppFolder(bitmap);

saveImagetoAppFolder is function that saves image to app folder. That's not problem. Is there anyway to take snapshot of screen?

Answer 1

To take screen shot of the device screen, Only if you have root call the screencap binary like:

Process sh = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su", null,null);
OutputStream  os = sh.getOutputStream();
os.write(("/system/bin/screencap -p " + Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+ "/img.png").getBytes("ASCII"));
os.flush();
os.close();
sh.waitFor()

And to load that file into a bitmap,Use

public static Bitmap decodeSampledBitmapFromFile(String path,
                                                     int reqWidth, int reqHeight) {

        // First decode with inJustDecodeBounds=true to check dimensions
        final BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
        BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path, options);

        // Calculate inSampleSize
        options.inSampleSize = calculateInSampleSize(options, reqWidth, reqHeight);

        // Decode bitmap with inSampleSize set
        options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
        return BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path, options);
    }

    public static int calculateInSampleSize(
            BitmapFactory.Options options, int reqWidth, int reqHeight) {
        // Raw height and width of image
        final int height = options.outHeight;
        final int width = options.outWidth;
        int inSampleSize = 1;

        if (height > reqHeight || width > reqWidth) {

            final int halfHeight = height / 2;
            final int halfWidth = width / 2;

            // Calculate the largest inSampleSize value that is a power of 2 and keeps both
            // height and width larger than the requested height and width.
            while ((halfHeight / inSampleSize) > reqHeight
                    && (halfWidth / inSampleSize) > reqWidth) {
                inSampleSize *= 2;
            }
        }

        return inSampleSize;
    }