How to capture everything currently on screen including Dialogs

Question

I have looked at probably every SO article concering capturing the screen (screenshot, screendump) programmatically on Android, and they usually all end up with the same ans

Answer 1

This is working inside an opened DialogFragment.

View v1 = ((ViewGroup) (((MyActivity)getActivity()).findViewById(android.R.id.content)));
v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap bitmapParent = Bitmap.createBitmap(v1.getDrawingCache());
v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);

// dialogView is the inflated view of the DialogFragment
dialogView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap bitmapDialog = Bitmap.createBitmap(dialogView.getDrawingCache());
dialogView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);

Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmapParent);
Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.FILTER_BITMAP_FLAG);
canvas.drawBitmap(bitmapDialog, 0, 0, paint);   

// Activity and dialog captured!!
bitmapParent.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, new FileOutputStream(new File(directory, name)));

Answer 2

use this library .... it works great for me. https://github.com/jraska/Falcon

  // Saving screenshot to file
            Falcon.takeScreenshot(this, imageFile);
            // Take bitmap and do whatever you want
            Bitmap bitmap = Falcon.takeScreenshotBitmap(this);

Answer 3

It is possible, you need to draw all view roots to the bitmap. Try out this library: https://github.com/jraska/Falcon it can capture Dailogs to your screenshot.