android studio emulator screenshot location

Here is CryptoConvert Pro’s store listing when translated to Hindi: If you append “&hl=” to the end of the package name, you can view the translated version.

For example, this URL for CryptoConvert Pro which will use your default locale: Side note – you can view the translated versions of a store listing by appending a locale as a parameter in the URL directly after the app’s package name. I wanted CryptoConvert to be as inclusive as possible, so I translated the app and my store listing description plus it’s assets into 11 locales resulting in 9 different languages: However, that’s only the set of screenshots for one single language. Any time you view the store listing, you’re presented with 7 screenshots for different scenarios in the app I want to showcase:

Take for example my app CryptoConvert Pro on Google Play. Unfortunately I can’t afford to pay anybody to produce Photoshopped mockups or to take all of my app screenshots by hand for me, so I have to do it all myself.īefore I get into all the work I did to automate this process with Python, I want to put into perspective that the number of store listing screenshots for any given app may be far larger than it appears. This isn’t a problem for apps produced by many big companies because generally they will use Photoshopped mockups as the screenshot asset instead of hand-picked screenshots from a device. If your app is relatively new and still going through rapid change, then you might find your existing store listing screenshots becoming obsolete as often as with each update. Screenshots are among the best tools you have to convince potential new users to click ‘Download’ on your apps, so usually you’d want them to be as up to date as possible – letting them showcase the best parts about your app. In today’s Side Project Time Hack post, I’m covering how I’ve automated the process of taking new store listing screenshots for my Android apps and showing how much time the automation saves me.Īcross everything involved in developing and maintaining a mobile app, I challenge you to find a task more tedious than keeping the store listing screenshots up to date.

Android studio emulator screenshot location