Capture the screen on mobile phone and save to computer with adb
When your computer needs to take a screenshot of a mobile phone, you will take a screenshot on the mobile phone and then send the picture to the computer. Here is another simple method, connect the mobile phone to computer via usb, turn on the debug mode, and then use adb
command to save the screenshot on the computer.
adb exec-out screencap
adb exec-out screencap -p > test.png
Note that this command is only successful when it runs without errors
adb shell screencap
Use adb shell screencap
to generate the screenshot to the specified path on the mobile phone, and then use adb pull
to copy the screenshot to the current directory on the computer, finally run adb shell rm
to delete the screenshot file of the mobile phone.
adb shell screencap /sdcard/Download/test.png
adb pull /sdcard/Download/test.png
adb shell rm /sdcard/Download/test.png