Taking a snapshot of the Android phone screen is not a difficult task. The screenshot of the screen can be used in many situations, perhaps to share a settings screen or to send the image of a message received or that of a high score to a game.
With Android, starting with the Android 4.0 version (Ice Cream Sandwich), it is very easy to take screenshots and can be done in the same way on any Samsung Galaxy, Huawei and any other Android smartphone .
To photograph the screen of Android any mobile phone or tablet you have to use a combination of keys by simultaneously pressing the side button of the Volume down and the power button .
You have to hold them down until you hear a click or sound.
This method works on Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Huawei P9 and P10, Google Nexus 7 tablets, Nexus and any other Android smartphone.
The two buttons must be pressed at exactly the same time, holding down until you hear the sound and the save screenshot notification appears.
On Samsung Galaxy and Notes you have to press the Power button and the Home button together .
You need to press the power button slightly before the Home button and then hold both of them down.
When you take a snapshot of the screen you hear the sound of the camera shutter and a notification appears at the top.
The acquired image can be viewed in the image gallery, in / images / screenshots.
On Galaxy you can also use a finger gesture on the screen.
You have to go to Settings> Motion> movements and gestures and enable the Palm Swipe option.
Then open the screen to be photographed, place the palm of your hand vertically on the screen of the S5 and move it to the right horizontally as if the hand were a photo scanner.
If the method with the keys is inconvenient or you want more options, there is an app for making screenshots that works on all Android phones, called Rapido Screenshot .
With this application you can take photos of the screen in succession and you can crop an area and photograph the screen with a single touch.
Alternatively, another app to take screenshots on Android and have functions to annotate the image and write on it is Screen Master .
The app allows you to choose the file format and the quality of the image to be saved, use a gesture to photograph the screen and activate a mobile button to take screenshots.
Another useful feature is the fact that you can merge the screenshots together or make slight changes.
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