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TL;DR
- Taking screenshots with remapped distant buttons seems to not work on the Google TV Streamer.
- This may very well be a consequence of Android TV 14, and will finally have an effect on further units.
- Even with the distant not working, screenshots are nonetheless attainable by way of ADB.
Why does taking a easy screenshot at all times need to be so darn awkward? Are you able to bear in mind if that’s energy plus volume-up, or volume-down? What number of occasions have you ever simply mashed on all of them till the screenshot lastly labored? As if issues weren’t unhealthy sufficient on Android telephones, the state of affairs’s much more annoying on Android TV — and to listen to experiences of the newest growth, it’s someway getting worse nonetheless.
Why would you need to take a screenshot on Android TV? Admittedly, this in all probability appeals extra to smartphone journalists and different obsessive sorts like us who love to trace all of the trivialities of UI growth. However actually, the purpose is that it’s your machine, and if you wish to take some screens, why shouldn’t you? The most important drawback is that your typical Android TV distant isn’t going to supply a devoted screenshot button — and good luck getting that power-plus-volume trick to work right here.
To date, the best resolution has been utilizing software program to remap the distant: to assign completely different performance to the buttons than the producer initially supposed. In a pinch, you might set it up in order that the Netflix button (or any of your alternative) now takes screenshots and saves them to native storage for later retrieval.
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However now the staff at 9to5Google has seen that with the brand new Google TV Streamer, the platform now not appears to assist this follow. Whereas trying to remap doesn’t throw up any apparent error messages, the screenshots simply don’t work.
It’s not instantly clear why this doesn’t work on the machine, however it feels doubtless this may very well be a consequence of Android TV 14, and we’re bracing to count on the identical from different {hardware} operating it. The change may not even be intentional, as this was at all times a bit hacky, and maybe dropping this screenshot workaround is simply the consequence of a broader platform replace.
In any case, it’s not the top of the highway for screenshots on Android TV and Google TV, and 9to5Google factors out that you would be able to at all times hook up with the highly effective Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and manually difficulty instructions to seize screens. That’ll need to do, however we’ll miss our screenshot distant hack.
