Most smartphones now have the option to take a screenshot of your screen, making it easy to share various things from your device which were impossible to share. In Android you need to press the Power Button and the Volume button simultaneously to capture and save the screenshot in your gallery. But screenshots not necessarily tell the complete story, sometimes there comes to need to take multiple screenshots to explain somethings which need to be told as a story.
CyanogenMod team had been working on a App to do the exact same thing, it will enable screen recording ( screencast ) with the simple press of Power Button and Volume Up button to start recording. The team promised that this App would not only record your actions on-screen but also record audio and touch indicators to indicate what you exactly did on the screen. But when the team announced this few weeks ago, they only announced it to be available to CyanogenMod 10.2 users who will have to install it via the CM nightly builds.
Changing that from just CM builds, the cyanogenmod team announced that the screencasting app would be available in the Play Store via the Google Play Store’s Beta Channel. The installation process would be fairly simple but there are a few prerequisites you need to follow to make sure you are part of the beta program to try this App.
- You need to join the CyanogenMod community.
- Your device must be running the latest CM11 nightly build.
- You should opt-in to join the CyanogenMod’s Screencast App’s Google Play Store Beta Program.
Once you follow the above three steps you are good to go. You can install the beta App immediately and test it out. You can play with it as help the team by reporting bugs ( if any ). Make sure you are running the latest CM nightly build, installing the app without would not work. The App is not compatible with any device which is not running the required CM build.
Once you’ve installed it, as indicated before you can start recording your screen by pressing the Power Button and the Volume Up Button together. This will start the screen recording as well your voice recording, so you can either create an App demo for your users ( as developers ) or your friends for fun.
The app works pretty well and there are not serious flaws or bugs to harm your device. If you are running the latest CM nightly build you should definitely check it.
via cyanogenMod Team
