Taking a Screenshot on an Android Phone

Preparing the article about making a DNN skin responsive I wanted to take a screenshot of the browser vote on an Android phone.

I found reported that for Android 4 and above the key combination of power and volume down buttons held together would take a screenshot on an Android phone.

Initial attempts either popped up the power of confirmation message out the volume control showed and actioned, reducing the volume level.

To be sure that I had the correct key combination I also tried power with volume up and the home virtual button with each of the volume keys.

Trying the power key and volume down key once more it all worked, no popup messages!

I held the keys for about 1 second and a screenshot was taken, disappearing from view, but adding an icon at the to left of the notification bar.

Clicking on this icon showed the screenshot with the option to share. From here it was ready to send meteor the image as an email attachment.

For the second screenshot showing the responsive website after looking at the image I wished to view it once again. The icon had now disappeared from the notification bar.

To view screenshots navigate to the gallery top level. All the screenshots are shown in their own grouping.