Android 4.3: How to screen-capture with delay and temporary elements?

[henrik2000]

Hi, Is there a hassle-free, decent app, that captures screens in Android 4.3 on Samsung S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1/2014
- without interpolating
- with 5 seconds delay
- also capturing screen elements that appear only while screen is touched?
I will happily pay for that app.

I would like to take Screenshots in that fashion:
1. press on-screen button in screenshot app
2. five seconds later, the whole screen will be saved as a PNG file (or TIFF or BMP).

But:
My two Android 4.3 devices create screenshots ONLY in those ways:
- wipe screen with hand horizontally (it's activated in settings)
- press Home- and Off-buttons
- on tablet, with S-Pen and screenshot-note (results look interpolated, even though they have the screen's resolution of 2560x1600px)
These methods are troublesome, the wiping changes app states and generally i cannot record elements that only appear when the screen is touched (for instance, the editing controls that appear when you touch a photo in an image-editing app).

Last year, i had some ways that all don't work now with Android 4.3. After pressing the Off-button for a while, i do get the usual menue, but there is no screenshot option (i don't see where i can activate the option in the settings).

I also tried around five apps recommended in many articles, including Screenshot Free, Screenshot UX Trial and Screenshot Ultimate. They do NOT capture anything. Screenshot Ultimate has a Screenshot Auto Detect telling me there is no easy way to capture screens; followed by a very long and complicated explanation how to capture screens anyway, but i don't want to follow this long explanation and i don't want to "root".

In short: Is there a hassle-free, decent app, that captures screens in Android 4.3
- without interpolating
- with 5 seconds delay
- also capturing screen elements that appear only while screen is touched?
I will happily pay for that app.

Thanks!

 

[NQuateman]

Sort of like Snagit on a Windows machine? I'll be interested in the responses, if at any.

 

[electricpete]

On my gs4 I use the xblast tools xposed module to give "advanced power down menu" which includes screen shot. For me it is easier than preSsing home/volume key (which requires exactly the right timing. ). Also I have the camera shutter sound silenced with wanan xposed module which also happens to silence screenshot (I still get the normal visual confirmation). That's handy to avoid people thinking you're creepy if you happen to take a screenshot while on the can (shutter sound). Other than that it's the same as normal screenshot ... I don't think it'll meet all your other requirements.

 

[RazzMaTazz]

I use Screenshot but it only works if your phone is rooted or you have certain models of unrooted phones. Screenshot has an option for an X-second delay, and you can have it take screenshots by shaking the phone (which I find most convenient).

Root your devices and you'll open up a whole world of useful apps.