Android Daily Superthread (Jun 10 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

Daily Superthread (Jun 10 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!
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PSA: Two different ways of taking screenshots on Android produces two different quality results
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Daily Superthread (Jun 10 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

Posted: 10 Jun 2022 05:00 AM PDT

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UK will not copy EU demand for common charging cable

Posted: 10 Jun 2022 08:16 AM PDT

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[Exclusive] OnePlus 10 Images Reveal Design, Specifications Tipped

Posted: 10 Jun 2022 06:46 AM PDT

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PSA: Two different ways of taking screenshots on Android produces two different quality results

Posted: 09 Jun 2022 04:37 AM PDT

A while ago I posted about the Mark Up tool ruining images when you edit them

Today I'm bringing you another PSA (Basing this on stock Android and Pixel).

TL;DR - Use hardware keys to take screenshots if you want full, high quality screenshots. Do no use the recents shortcut, it takes lower quality screenshots.

Android has two ways of taking screenshots.

One is using hardware keys (Power + Volume Down).

The other is using the recents shortcut button.

I used to think they produced exactly the same screenshot, so the recents shortcut was pointless but someone on r/Android pointed out to me that the difference is that:

Hardware way of taking a screenshot captures the status bar and the nav bar too. So it captures everything exactly as you see on the screen.

Recents shortcut way of taking a screenshot leaves status bar clean and does not capture the nav bar either.

This is brilliant as it gives you two options. One where you can take the screenshot of the screen exactly as is, and the other one (recents shortcut) where you can take a "cleaner" more privacy oriented screenshot.

However, that's not the only difference. Unfortunately there is a negative difference. If you looked at the links above, you may have already noticed that taking a screenshot with hardware keys gives you full resolution and noticeably higher quality screenshot than using the recents shortcut, which not only produces smaller resolution, but also looks blurry.

I have no idea how the Android team made this mistake, or was it intentional? But there you go...

If you are a person like me who likes to maintain the original quality of media as much as possible and is bothered by tools lowering quality upon saving and messaging apps resizing, stripping EXIF (ok that one I understand why, but give an option!) and generally brutalizing image quality when they are sent, then this will bother you too. Enjoy!

As a side note: The text "Select" and image copy on the Recents is absolutely brilliant! I never thought I'd use it, but now I use it all the time to select text, copy images, copy images and look them up with Google Lens, etc.

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Black Shark 5 Pro Unboxing & Review (Global Release) - TechTablets

Posted: 09 Jun 2022 11:44 AM PDT