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Robogif

A small utility to record Android device screen to a GIF

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RoboGif

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

Demo recorded GIF

Requirements

Getting ffmpeg

OS X
brew install ffmpeg
Linux

On Ubuntu 18.04 or equivalent, you can just use apt:

apt-get install ffmpeg
Windows

Windows support was not tested as of yet. Zeranoe’s static builds should work fine as long as they’re named ffmpeg.exe in path.

Installation

pip install robogif

Usage

To record a gif:

robogif demo.gif

RoboGif Recorder v1.1.2
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 v1.1.2
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