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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 gadgets.
- Even with the distant not working, screenshots are nonetheless attainable by way of ADB.
Why does taking a easy screenshot all the time must 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 most recent improvement, it’s someway getting worse nonetheless.
Why would you wish to take a screenshot on Android TV? Admittedly, this in all probability appeals extra to smartphone journalists and different obsessive varieties like us who love to trace all of the trivialities of UI improvement. However actually, the purpose is that it’s your machine, and if you wish to take some screens, why shouldn’t you? The largest downside 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.
Thus far, the simplest resolution has been utilizing software program to remap the distant: to assign completely different performance to the buttons than the producer initially meant. In a pinch, you might set it up in order that the Netflix button (or any of your selection) now takes screenshots and saves them to native storage for later retrieval.
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However now the staff at 9to5Google has observed that with the brand new Google TV Streamer, the platform not appears to assist this observe. 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, nevertheless it feels seemingly this may very well be a consequence of Android TV 14, and we’re bracing to anticipate the identical from different {hardware} working it. The change won’t even be intentional, as this was all the time 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 street for screenshots on Android TV and Google TV, and 9to5Google factors out which you can all the time hook up with the highly effective Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and manually situation instructions to seize screens. That’ll must do, however we’ll miss our screenshot distant hack.