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Created October 3, 2014 13:47
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Alias for making screenshots from connected Android device/emulator
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alias screenshot='adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" > "/Users/fokkezb/Downloads/android_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"'
# NOTE: Replace 'fokkezb' with your user. You cannot use ~ when using $() unfortunately
@skypanther
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Stating the obvious, you can save to the desktop rather than downloads with:

adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" > "/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Desktop/android_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"

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I know this is an old gist, but still handy. Here's a better way to do this without hard-coding the path to your user's directory:

# take a screencap of a connected Android device
alias screenshot='adb shell screencap -p | perl -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" > "$HOME/Desktop/android_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).png"'

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