Screenshots and Screen Recordings - What To Do When Android Won't Let You

Developers have many reasons for preventing Android users from taking screenshots or screen recordings of in-app content. Usually its for security but sometimes its to protect copyrighted material. Jason Howell walks through some examples of how this is enforced, and a few ways to work around those limitations.
• What kinds of apps prevent screenshots.
• Why they do that!
• Screenshot shortcut on most devices.
• Assistant's Screen Context feature.
• What is Digital Right Management?
• The open-source app scrcpy.
• Using a computer to take a screenshot in an app that prevents it.
• The analog hole.
scrcpy - github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
Homebrew for Mac - brew.sh
Host: Jason Howell
Hands-On Android Episode 24
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