[Q] Is there an easy way to do screen shot capture in 2.1?

---

While playing movies, for example, I want to capture the screen as a still picture. Same goes for a piece of info that I see on the webpage, etc.

In the iPhone environment,users could just press the power and home button simultaneously to capture it as a photo.

Is there anything like that on Android?

I only know one way and that requires root , then download app from market "Shootme"

Originally Posted by ghost77

I only know one way and that requires root , then download app from market "Shootme"

Thanks for the info. Do you then assign a hardware button to do the capture? No problem capturing a movie while it is playing?

Originally Posted by eaglesteve

Thanks for the info. Do you then assign a hardware button to do the capture? No problem capturing a movie while it is playing?

"Shootme" works by shacking phone left and right , i did not try capturing a movie but it should work it captures everything else on screen, there are more apps in market capable capturing screenshots , they all need root to best of my knowledge.

Originally Posted by ghost77

"Shootme" works by shacking phone left and right , i did not try capturing a movie but it should work it captures everything else on screen, there are more apps in market capable capturing screenshots , they all need root to best of my knowledge.

Shaking is a good way, as long as the orientation is not upset by it I guess.

Having go root the phone is a pity. Does anyone know of a non-root solution?

Originally Posted by eaglesteve

Having go root the phone is a pity. Does anyone know of a non-root solution?

I dont have root either and i looked for screenshoot app as well, but i wasnt able to find any..

-TB-

It's due to Android's security settings that root is required to take screenshots.

No other way around it for now.

Read this thread, in the first post there is a link on how to take screenshots through the android SDK:

The screenshot thread

Wow, does it have to be this complicated just to capture screen?

Originally Posted by dakine

Read this thread, in the first post there is a link on how to take screenshots through the android SDK:

The screenshot thread

Originally Posted by eaglesteve

Wow, does it have to be this complicated just to capture screen?

Just root the phone already it only takes 2 minutes.