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Amazon is doing some interesting work to drive an EC2 hosted Android simulator with a Flash front-end, letting to you test drive apps in the browser. http://gi

Amazon is doing some interesting work to drive an EC2 hosted Android simulator with a Flash front-end, letting to you test drive apps in the browser. http://gigaom.com/mobile/amazons-testdrive-is-the-real-strength-of-appstore/ http://gigaom.com/mobile/amazons-testdrive-is-the-real-stren... That being said, it is ridiculous that there is no built in way to take screens of an app on an Android phone (like the power + home iOS combo). Since Android has the concept of a secure canvas (e.g.sensitive content), this should be stock. Lack of easy screenshots makes it harder for normal users to blog about and help review and promote an Android app.

rodh257 16y ago
On my Galaxy S, Samsung has baked in Home+Back Button as a way of taking screenshots... though needless to say this combination is prone to error. It also doesn't seem to work on certain views.
newhouseb 16y ago
It's pretty mind blowing - when I was developing Yelp Monocle on Android the best way to get a screenshot was to _take_a_picture_of_the_damn_phone_ because the SDK screenshot utility read out pixels very slowly in a raster pattern and due to the jitter from the sensors this resulted in a screenshot that appeared as if you were fast forwarding through a video.