Android Advisor — Issue 45 2017

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HOW TO

disposal. You’ll need to turn on this functionality

in Settings, Motions and gestures, Palm swipe to

capture first, but Samsung Galaxy phones allow

you to take a screenshot with a swipe of the palm.

Extra functions on Samsung devices

Screenshots on Samsung Galaxy

phones now feature extra functionality,

too. These changes were introduced

with the Galaxy S7 but rolled back

to the Galaxy S6, and we find them

in the Galaxy S8 too.

Screenshots, by default, show

only what’s on your phone or tablet’s

screen, but sometimes you need to

capture more of the content on, say,

a web page, but don’t want to have

to take multiple screenshots and

then stitch them together.

Now when you take a screenshot on a Samsung

Galaxy phone you’ll see four options pop up at

the bottom of the screen: Scroll capture, Draw,

Crop and Share. You can use the first option to

take longer screenshots, the second to annotate

them and the third to display only the information

you want to be shown. The fourth option, Share,

will allow you to send that screenshot to any

compatible apps on your device.

Sony phones and tablets

Moving on from the Samsung Galaxy series, some

phones feature a screen capture option from the