RoboGif

A small utility to record Android device screen to an optimized GIF so you can paste it to GitHub or a simillar service.

Requirements

• Python 3
• adb in path
• ffmpeg in path (has to be decently new to support palettegen and paletteuse filters and have libx264 if you want video output)

Getting ffmpeg

OS X

brew install ffmpeg

Linux

On Ubuntu 24.04 or equivalent, you can just use apt:

apt-get install ffmpeg

Windows

scoop install ffmpeg

Any other approach will work as long as you end up with ffmpeg.exe.

Installation

pip install robogif

Usage

To record a gif:

robogif demo.gif

RoboGif Recorder v1.4.0
Starting recording on <serial>...
Press Ctrl+C to stop recording.
Recording done, downloading file....
5679 KB/s (7036946 bytes in 1.209s)
Converting video to GIF...
Done!
Created demo.gif

or to record a video:

robogif demo.mp4

RoboGif Recorder v1.4.0
Starting recording on 061ffcff0b107aef...
Press Ctrl+C to stop recording.
Recording done, downloading file....
7121 KB/s (1048401 bytes in 0.143s)
Optimizing video...
Done!
Created demo.mp4