Is there any way to programmatically screen shot android without root the phone?

[haibomei]

Dear,
I wonder whether there is a way to screen shot android programmatically without rooting the phone?
On Google play, there are numbers of screen shot apps saying "no need to root the phone". But actually, most of them do need to root the phone even they said no need.

Anybody know how to do it? I can only do it by rooting the phone and pushing my app as system app.

Many thanks in advance!

Haibo

 

[valorian]

What type of phone do you have? Most of the new phones have screen shot capabilities built in. My S3 and my S4 for instance can take a screen shot by waving my have from left to right across the screen. Other phones can do it with a combination of key presses.

 

[funkylogik]

By "programmatically" do you mean it to take a shot at set intervals like every hour or something.

 

[haibomei]

Yes, "programmatically" means not triggered by pressing any key or shaking the phone. Just like your example, taking screenshot in a fix intervel etc.
I know lots of phone have hard ware way to take screenshot, what a bout a application having some code to do so?

Thanks!

 

[funkylogik]

Hey sorry but there arent many non-root options out there, certainly not free ones and they seem to require a PC connection for some reason

 

[MustangGirl95]

I'm having trouble all of a sudden not able to take a screenshot. Well it snaps but picture is blank. On droid RAZR Max did factory reset. ...now can't save pictures people text me says internal memory full. Deleted many pictures use backup. So not the problem.