Record screen on Android WITHOUT apps or applications, without watermark

Recording the cell phone screen is not only necessary if you want to make a tutorial O demonstration, but also in case you want to record what you play or a «gameplay»And even videos or clips that you are watching on your cell phone, like those on Facebook, YouTube, Netflix, which are tedious, complicated, or impossible to obtain otherwise.

To record anything that is being played or viewed on the screen of your tablet or mobile there are several alternatives. The simplest is to search the device settings, as currently many brands of Android phones offer this possibility natively in the system.

However, if that is not your case, you can resort to third-party software or applications, very feature-rich, like adding your own watermark, scratch on the screen O show camera during recording.

NO apps or applications

Before installing any app, take a look at the settings or configurations of your Android cell phone or tablet in search of your own option to record the screen.

For example, in my Huawei con Android 9, the option is in the quick settings, although “hidden”. I just have to edit those settings and add the shortcut for the screen recording option. Now you just have to slide the status bar and touch this «shortcut» to start the recording, the same as in addition to the screen. record external audio with microphone (unfortunately not the internal audio, so quality is not the best) and the touches on the screen.

To stop the recording, you can touch the recording notice or from the notification, something that will automatically save the video in the Gallery. The result is a clean video, no watermark, which is not the case with some invasive apps or those that ask you to buy their “PRO” version to remove it.

Apps to record screen

If your cell phone does not have its own option to record the screen, as is the case with some Samsung Galaxy, the simplest option is to install an application. There are very good applications for this task and one of the best, most complete and popular is AZ Screen Recorder. The only essential requirement is that your cell phone has Android 5.0, since it is from this system that the possibility was given to these screen recording apps without being root.

All AZ Screen Recorder App Settings

With AZ Screen Recorder you have all the tools you need to make more “professional” videos. Except for the floating button that appears during recording, this application also records clean videos, no watermark (in fact, you can optionally add a logo or watermark own).

Among other things, with AZ you can make annotations or draw on the screen while recording, pause recording from the floating button on the screen, activate the front camera to show your face (like Google Play Games or YouTube Gaming) and you even have a integrated video editor with tons of functions to trim or join videos, edit audio, add text or stickers.

Another cool app that I ever tried is Mobizen, whose exclusive version for Samsung it even allowed to record the screen with the internal audio. “Recordable” was another old app that was capable of this, on old devices since Android 2.3.

Other alternatives

Recording Android screen with ADB (requires Android 4.4 or higher). The

If your device does not come with its own screen recorder or you have Android 4.4 “KitKat” or an older versionWhere you cannot install the above mentioned recording apps, there are other options.

For example, if you have Android 4.4 from now on you can record the screen with the help of a PC and ADB (that is, without having to install additional applications) getting a clean video without any prompts that you are recording. Within the ADB command line, the only command you must send to start recording the cell phone screen is the following: adb shell screenrecord --verbose ./sdcard/grabacion.mp4. To stop recording and save the video in the mobile memory press Ctrl + C. See the step-by-step tutorial here.

If your cell phone has Android 4.3 or an older version, you can use the Recordable program (compatible from Android 2.3), or also the Z Screen Recorder application (works from Android 2.0), but in the latter case you need to root your cell phone.

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