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How to record screen on android
Hey everyone. In today's quick video, I want to show you how to record your Android screen. It doesn't matter what kind of phone you have. As long as it's running Android on it, you could use these two techniques to record it and I've looked at every technique there is for four years, I've been recording my Android screen and these are the best two methods I felt.
Okay, the first one is going to be recording your Android screen, using a computer. So you could do it on a PC or a Mac and it's pretty straightforward, but it's not free. The second option I'll show you is using an app on your Android phone that records it right on your phone. So it records your screen right on your phone, and then you could send it to yourself on your computer.
If you're editing there, I typically use the first method. If I'm using my computer to edit the video and I use the second method. If I use my phone to record the video. Okay, I'll show you both. So I'll put a link to this website below reflect their three, basically takes your Android phone or your iPhone, your iPad, whatever device you have and wirelessly reflects it on your computer screen and you could record it right here and he puts it right on your desktop, that recording and it could record up to 4k. Okay, so this one you could try for free from the link below, see if you like it. I have the paid version here that I've bought and it's been pretty much the same. I've had a sense reflect there too.
It's been the same for a while. I'm sure reflector 4, it's going to have some improvement, but it should work the same way. Now, what we want to do is we want to open up a reflector, so I'll go ahead and open it. So here, this is what it looks like and it's going to ask you to scan this with your phone.
I've already gone through the setup process is really straightforward. Let me go to the Android here and under Android, all I have to do is from the top bring this down. I'll bring it down one more time and I'm looking for an option over here called screencast. Okay, if I select this. It should pull up my reflector three computers.
It's going to be the name of the computer here and if I just select the right here, it's going to ask me, do I want to record or cast my screen? I'm going to say yes and if I go to the computer right here, this is it. This is the actual phone right here. So whatever I do on my phone, you see this, I'm just doing.
These things to my phone and it's going to appear right here on my computer. Okay, so to record it, all I have to do is press this little record icon. But before I do that, let me show you a couple of different settings here where you could change some of the recording options. This is the broadcast name.
So this is how my phone actually connected to my computer. I should mention this device and your phone should be on the same wifi and I have Bluetooth enabled as well, just in case. But they do have to be on the same wifi here. Let me show you connections here because you could change the resolution over here to 4k or any number of these options that you see over here.
I'll just have it on 1080p, you could go ahead and change this depending on your screen. I have a best for retinol on a retina display, and it does have the airplay security where it shows you an on-screen code. When you sign up for the first time, you have to put in that code from your computer here onto your Android device and you could change a couple of things on the recording. You actually let you change the background color of what you record. I'll show you that in a second, and you could change the frame rate of your device as well. Let me just wake up my phone here and let's go ahead and press record. Now, I'll press record right on top and it's actually going to record the frame of the phone too, which is kind of interesting, and as soon as I pause my recording, Basically, it's kind of telling me to save it to a location, so I'll just save it to my desktop here and here, this is the new recording. If I press the space bar on it, this is the screen recording.
Now, make sure your resolution and everything is set correctly to get the best results and if you can't see this very well, you could always extend it out to, from the corners of it and then press record. But it does mirror the phone wirelessly. I'm not plugged into my car, a computer, so that's one way to do it and it's not my favorite way because it has a little bit of lag. So I. Rather directly records right on my phone, but it does cut some time if you're editing on your computer. So I definitely want to show you that I record my iPhone the same way too, with the same app. So you don't have to buy two different apps for iPhone and Android phones.
Really easy to use and the next one is actually an app from the Android store and I'll put a link to it in the description as well and let me go ahead and open it up and M O B I Z N if you want to search for it. And when you open it up, you get this little section right here. Let me actually move it.
You see this M right here. If I select it, I get these options. Now, all the screen recordings that I've downloaded before on Android have the same kind of option, same kind of layout. Let me show you how it works. If you press the recording icon, it's going to start recording a video of your screen, which is what we want.
But there's a setting too. I'm going to show you, I'm going to click this second option and right on top, there is a settings gear. So this lets you change your video recording too. Okay, so you could select this and change your video, recording your quality and even your frame rate over here or you could use the recording wizard here to do all that for you.
Okay, so I already selected that there are some other options that are worth looking at. Okay, so let me exit there. So that's under the settings here, again, the settings icon over here, and this first icon is going to show you all your recordings. Once you have some. So let me go ahead and press record, and he's going to go ahead and give me that warning again.
I'll press okay cause it's going to give me a countdown and just like that, it's going to start recording my screen. So whatever I do on my screen here is going to get recorded. Using that app right here on my phone. Okay, once I'm done, I'm just going to bring this down from the top. Okay. You see screen recording in progress.
I'm going to select this to end it here. Okay, there we go. I'll rate you later and now if I select this and go to this tab, I should see that new recording right here. This is a recording I just made. Okay. It's going to show up right here and. You have some options for that recording, you could go ahead and put it in the trashcan.
If you don't like it, you could go ahead and press this option right here to actually trim it. So you could change the in and out point. So you could edit it right here really useful option. There there are some editing options on top and you could add different clips to the beginning and end of it too.
Now, I usually use Adobe premier rush on my phone, Adobe premiere rush I'll link below and Adobe premier, the regular version on the computer if I'm sending this to my computer. Okay, so that's the couple of different options that you have for editing. If you don't want to use this app, or if this app is too limited here for your trimming or editing and if you want to send it to your computer or any other device, you could press the share icon right in the middle there, and you could share it to any number of different things here. So you have lots of options. A lot of times I save it to my Google Drive here on my phone, and then I just open it on my computer as Google drive, drive.google.com really easy. One of my favorite ways to do it, but you could send it to any number of things and even use Bluetooth here to send it to a different device. Okay, and again, both of those different applications I mentioned are linked below. This one is actually free. The one I showed you on the phone with a watermark, I paid a little bit of extra money.
To remove that watermark, but the Watermark's pretty subtle on that. Pretty much all of them that record on your phone. If they're free, they have a watermark. I haven't found a good one that doesn't. So if you want to pay to get that removed, you can, I hope you found this useful. Please give it a thumbs up, subscribe for easy-to-follow tech videos, and I'll see you next time.