eyoonet / droidcast

An experimental demo for capturing and displaying screenshot of an Android device without ROOT permission.

DroidCast

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An experimental demo for capturing and displaying screenshot of Android devices in the WebBrowser. It's compatible with Android OS 4.0+ and could be used as a convenient tool for taking a batch of screenshots by different image formats && dimensions, reporting bugs and reviewing app features.

Dependencies

• Python
• ADB tool

Quick start

• Connect your device/emulator

• Install the apk

Download and install the prebuilt apk from here or install it directly:

./gradlew clean installDebug

• Run the script (using automation3.py for Python 3.6+)

python scripts/automation.py

After that, the default web browser will be opened. You should see the screenshot now.

Use it wirelessly :

• Get your device IP address (in Settings - System - About phone - Status) e.g : 192.168.x.x
• Enable adb over TCP/IP on your device: adb tcpip 5555
• Connect to your device: adb connect 192.168.x.x:5555 (replace 192.168.x.x with the actual IP address)
• Unplug your device
• Go through all the steps under Common usage

To switch back to USB mode: adb usb.

Common usage:

Note:

Once apk file installed, you can use the python scripts to automate the following adb related operations.

• Install the apk properly on the phone (Don't install it via Run 'app' from Android Studio).

./gradlew clean installDebug

• Push the apk to the tmp folder

adb push ${your-project-path}/DroidCast/app/build/outputs/apk/debug/DroidCast-debug-1.0.apk /data/local/tmp

• Start our internal server process for image processing by app_process

$ adb shell
D1C:/ $ export CLASSPATH=/data/local/tmp/DroidCast-debug-1.0.apk
D1C:/ $ exec app_process /system/bin com.rayworks.droidcast.Main '$@'
>>> DroidCast main entry

• Please note: On some devices, if you got the error "appproc: ERROR: could not find class 'com.rayworks.droidcast.Main', please replace the above value of CLASSPATH with the result returned by adb shell pm path com.rayworks.droidcast.

• Use adb forward socket connection from your pc to the connected device

$ adb forward tcp:53516 tcp:53516

• View the image via web browser http://localhost:53516/screenshot or with the specific dimension and image format, e.g. http://localhost:53516/screenshot?format=png&width=1080&height=1920

Currently png, jpeg and webp, these image types are supported.

Reference

vysor 原理以及 Android 同屏方案

scrcpy : Display and control your Android device

Alternatives

scrcpy

web-adb

AndroidScreenShot_SysApi

Stargazers over time

License

Copyright (C) 2018 rayworks

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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