ISSUE 67 • ANDROID ADVISOR 37ANDROID 10- Screen recording
Here’s one that creators will love: Google is finally
building a native screen recorder into Android. It’s not
quite ready for Android 10 – and in fact, it’s not even
an option in Developers options anymore – but there
are signs that it could show up soon. Relegated to
the developer-only ADB flags at the moment, screen
recording will be accessible by holding down the
power button to bring up the menu and then long-
pressing on the screenshot icon.
In its current form, a check-box dialog appears
asking if your want to record voice-over or show your
taps. After selecting your options, you need only press
Record to start things off. When you’re done, you can
stop the recording by swiping down and tapping Stop
in the notification panel (which oddly will need to be
edited out of the video). - Live Caption
If you check out the Android 10 site, one of the
spotlighted features – the first on the page, actually
– is Live Caption. One of the coolest features to come
along in a while, it provides automatic captions for
any video, including ones you shot with your own
phone. The only problem is, it’s not ready yet. While
you can see the placeholder for Live Caption in the
Accessibility settings when you search for it, the
toggle isn’t actually there. In its Android 10 blog post,
Google says that Live Caption will be available “this
fall, starting with Pixel”.
But it doesn’t say which Pixel. Google has indicated
that Live Caption will require a fair amount of memory