- One question I get asked all the time is,
"How can I record the screen on my Android device?"
In this video I'm gonna show you two ways
that you can do it,
the first is using your Mac or your PC
and the second is using your Android device.
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Okay, so jumping straight into recording
your Android device screen,
the first way that we're gonna show you
is with some software that works on both Mac and PC,
and the second way we're gonna show you
is just using your device,
so no need for a PC or Mac for the second method.
So starting off with the first method,
the piece of software that you're gonna need
is called Reflector 2, and it sells for $14.99.
There is also a free trial version available as well,
so download Reflector 2 and install it
on either your Mac or PC.
Next up you need to make sure that both your computer
and your Android device are on the same WiFi network.
And you will need the Google Home app
installed on your device.
So to get started, open up the Google Home app,
click up on settings and choose cast screen audio.
And then select your computer.
Now you'll see your phone screen
has been shared over to your computer.
Now before you hit that record button
to start recording your screen,
it's a good idea to jump into the settings
and to check your video recording settings.
So click on settings, go down to preferences,
and then go across to recording.
And in here you've got the option
to choose your recording resolutions,
so you got the options of 4K, 1080p, 720p and 480p.
Now if you want the highest quality then choose 4K,
but I'd suggest not going less than 1080p.
And as a lot of devices at the moment still aren't 4K,
you'll probably find that 1080p
would be the best choice here.
Under recording quality you can pick very high,
high, medium, low, or very low,
and I recommend that you leave this at very high.
And you can also choose your recording frames per second,
or the frame rate of the video you're gonna be recording.
In most cases you'll want to leave this to 30,
but if you're gonna be recording gaming videos,
then you may wanna try 60
and see if that gives you a better result.
So we'll leave that here at 30.
Then it's just a matter of pressing record
and recording your video.
Once you're done, press the stop recording button
and then choose where you wanna save the file.
Okay, so that's how you can record
your Android device screen using your Mac or your PC
and using the software Reflector 2.
Now we're gonna jump into
how you can record your phone screen, or your device screen,
using just the device itself.
Now for this, you'll need an app called Du Recorder,
or D-U Recorder and it's free in the Android Play Store.
So essentially how this app works is
when you open the app you get a little record button
that sits off to the side on your screen,
on top of any app that you've got open.
When you tap on that icon a little menu appears
and you've got the choice of starting your recording,
open up settings, enable or disable your phone's camera,
and to take a screenshot.
So before you press the record button
to start recording your screen, press the settings button,
which is the little four squares, come across to settings,
and in here you can choose your video resolution.
So once again I recommend not going less than 1080p
for your screen recording,
but if you do have higher options
and you wanna have a higher quality video,
then you can select a higher resolution.
So I'll select 1080p and just below that
you can also adjust your video quality,
which is the video bit rate.
Now if you really want the best quality recording
you can get from your device
then pick the highest megabits per second
that's available for your device.
So you can see here that we've got 12 that we could pick,
and then the entire video is locked down
and capturing at 12 megabits per second.
But that'll also make a huge video file.
But in the case of most screen recordings,
I recommend that you leave this at auto
because it would automatically adjust
depending on what you're actually doing
with your phone while you're recording.
So we'll leave that on auto.
And once again we've also got control
over our frames per second.
So what I recommend here is
that you don't leave this on auto
and that you lock down your frame-rate
to 30 frames per second for most standard screen recording,
or if you're gonna be recording gaming
then pick 60 if you're after a smoother video.
And there's a heap of other settings in here
that aren't critical
but they're definitely worth looking at,
or at least knowing that you've got
these options available to you.
Like you can turn on or off audio recording,
you can show the touch marks on your screen,
so that later when you're watching back you can see
where you've pressed on your screen.
And you can also select
where you actually want the video saved.
So a heap of options in there,
we're just covering the critical ones
to get you the best results.
So we'll go back out of this now,
and we'll tap on the recorder icon on the side
and we will select camera,
just to show you what that looks like.
So you can actually record your phone screen
and have your camera recording at the same time.
You can also reposition and move around
and scale up and down the video as well.
So you got quite a bit of power in here
to create some really awesome screen captures.
When you're ready to record,
select back on the camera icon and press record.
It will do a quick countdown from three seconds
and then your screen is recording.
Now while you're recording, that little icon disappears,
so it's not gonna be in your actual recording.
So to stop the recording, you just need to swipe down
into your notifications area and hit stop.
And there's one other feature in here
that's definitely worth a mention.
Once you've finished your screen recording,
click back on that camera icon and open up settings.
Now if you come across to the tools page,
you'll see in here that you can edit your video,
you can merge videos together,
you can transfer your recording to another device
or computer on the same WiFi network,
you can stitch your images, blur your images,
and crop your images all from within this one app,
so that's pretty cool.
So there's two ways that you can record
your Android device screen.
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