Hands-on with Android 12's scrolling screenshot feature

In its announcement of the feature, Google said scrolling screenshots would only work if your app uses a standard “View-based UI,” which Chrome does n...
In its announcement of the feature, Google said scrolling screenshots would only work if your app uses a standard “View-based UI,” which Chrome does not. The company said it’s continuing.
Hold the Power and Volume Down buttons for a few seconds, or use the three-finger swipe. Once you see the screenshot preview appear, look for the Expanded Screenshot button. This will take you.
Scrolling screenshot feature came with Android 12 beta 3. From then on it was compatible only with screenshots taken using the hardware buttons. It was expected that the feature would be made compatible with gestures in new versions, but this did not happen.One possible explanation for Google's decision not to move forward with the feature could be down to patents – other smartphone manufacturers potentially hold the keys to scrolling.
Android Police has uncovered two Google Issue Tracker threads which state that Google finds the adding of the scrolling screenshot feature “infeasible”, thus, the company won’t be working on bringing this feature to light. The scrolling screenshot is noticeably present to smartphones especially to Samsung devices.How to Take a Scrolling Screenshot on Android 12 Fix #2: Use phone’s physical buttons for scrolling screenshots The new ‘Capture more’ option only seems to appear when you trigger the screenshot functionality using your phone’s physical buttons; that is when you use this combination – Power button + Volume button.Press the volume down and power button at the same time, and take a screenshot on any app on any page (except on apps that explicitly restrict screenshots, such as banking apps and some media.
Take Scrollable Screenshots in Chrome Chrome has recently added a native screenshot feature. It also has the ability to take scrolling screenshots. So if you want to take a scrolling screenshot of a webpage in Chrome, you can use the native feature. For that, launch the Chrome app and open the web page.I've had the Android 12 pre-releases for the last few months on my Pixel 5, and updated to the official release today, and I've never gotten the option after taking a screenshot to do a scrolling one. Regardless of what app I'm in (Chrome, the Google app, whatever) it only gives me the "share" and "edit" options, never the "Capture more" one.From there, press the physical Power+Volume Down buttons until the screen flashes. Next, tap “Capture More” from the screenshot preview menu. If an app doesn’t allow the scrolling screenshot feature, the “Capture More” button won’t be present. Android will automatically capture more of the screen vertically.

29 April 2019, 10:30 | Views: 177

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