{"id":15425,"date":"2011-03-01T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=15425"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:03:58","slug":"android-2-3-3-gingerbread-to-allow-screenshots-without-rooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/android-2-3-3-gingerbread-to-allow-screenshots-without-rooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 2.3.3. Gingerbread to allow screenshots without rooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a former Android user, I could never understand why I couldn&#8217;t take <strong>screenshots<\/strong> on my phone as easily as I could on my iPod Touch. Taking screenshots on Android phone required having root access on your device, or using the SDK for Android &#8211; which wasn&#8217;t the best solution either. Luckily it seems that this issue will finally be sorted out in the upcoming Android version <strong>2.3.3<\/strong>, also known as <strong>Gingerbread<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" title=\"android-screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/android-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/android-screenshot.jpg 500w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/android-screenshot-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/android-233-allow-screenshots-without-rooting\">Androidcentral<\/a>, the <strong>root-free screenshot feature<\/strong> will be implemented in this new version of Android, meaning that applications created by third-party developers will be allowed to grab whatever is being displayed on the screen. Of course, it&#8217;ll still take some time before Gingerbread is spread to all Android terminals and we start seeing screenshot-capable Android apps in the Market, but in any case it is a long-awaited feature that&#8217;s finally come true.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dichohecho\/\">dichohecho<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former Android user, I could never understand why I couldn&#8217;t take screenshots on my phone as easily as I could on my iPod Touch. Taking screenshots on Android phone required having root access on your device, or using the SDK for Android &#8211; which wasn&#8217;t the best solution either. Luckily it seems that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/android-2-3-3-gingerbread-to-allow-screenshots-without-rooting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Android 2.3.3. Gingerbread to allow screenshots without rooting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-15425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334406,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425\/revisions\/334406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15425"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=15425"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=15425"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=15425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}