As a developer, you will need to take screenshots frequently to share to your team. In this post, let me share you a simple way to screenshot Android device and save the image on Mac.

Prerequisites:

1. You already installed adb on your PC (Mac in my case)
2. Your phone is being connected to your PC

// Take the screenshot and save to phone's SDCard 
// (You can change screenshot.png to any name that you want)
adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png 

// Pull/Copy the screenshot to your Mac
adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png  

// Delete the screenshot on your phone (if needed)
adb shell rm /sdcard/screenshot.png

If you want to run just one command (combine above separate commands actually):

// Solution 1: separate commands by "&&"
adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png && 
adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png && 
adb shell rm /sdcard/screenshot.png

// Solution 2: separate commands by semicolon(s) (;)
adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png;
adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png;
adb shell rm /sdcard/screenshot.png

Phuc Tran

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Founder & CTO at Bumbii Technology

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