Capture Android Screen Video from Visual Studio

While debugging your Xamarin Android app in Visual Studio you can capture a video of the device screen and upload it to your PC. To do this open the ADB command prompt from the Xamarin Android toolbar:-

At the command prompt navigate to a folder where you want the video to end up. Type the following command to start recording:-

adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/filename.mp4

The path you supply must be a valid path on the device with enough space to store the video. The video can be up to 3 minutes long. To stop recording press Ctrl-C at the console window. Then to upload the video type:-

adb pull /sdcard/filename.mp4

Where obviously the path must match whatever you used in the first command. Once it shows that the pull was successful you can open the file and do whatever you need to do with it. You can do basic trimming using the Windows Photos app, and there are plenty of other options for more complex editing…