Screen recording of your apps

You want to publish your app. And you feel the app installs may improve after you add a promo video.

But you are a one-man(or woman) team. And you rarely know anything about creating a video. What do you do?

Screen recording comes to your rescue. You can record your phone screen activities into a video file. All you need is simple android adb tool.

Connect your phone to the laptop.

Go to command prompt. Locate the directory where adb command is present. Normally it is yoursdkdirectory/platform-tools.

And give the command on c
adb devices

You should be able to see your phone listed there.

Next you give command
adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/yourfilename.mp4

Now the screen record will start. End it by pressing ^c

The recorded video will be stored in your sdcard.

Copy this to your laptop and you can edit it using moviemaker software in windows

The problem with above method is audio will not be recorded and you have to add it in moviemaker. There are many screenrecording apps available in google play. I found AZ screen recorder to be good. You do not need to root the phone and it records audio as well.

Did I finally create the video for my C questions app. I did. But I realized that I have made it worse in movie maker. After spending an entire day on that.

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