How to take screenshots on Android? Tutorial for newbies

Probably on more than one occasion, due to the fact of wanting to share with a contact something that happens on the screen of your mobile terminal, to show a record in the many games available in the catalog for Android, or to try to ask someone friend who knows how to solve a certain error or failure that occurs in our terminal, you have needed take a screenshot. And in this case we are going to show you how to do it on our blog in a new installment of Tutorials for newbies.

It should be noted that there are terminals that allow you to take screenshots automatically, with which you will need to install specific applications on your Android. Others that conform to the new Android 4.4 guideline and use a fairly simple key combination. And others that despite allowing screenshots natively, have different accesses depending on the user interface that apply to the modification made in Android by the manufacturer of the mobile terminal.

How to take screenshots on Android? - Tutorial for newbies

If you have one of the newest terminals on the market you are in luck, because you will have it very easy when taking a screenshot on Android. In fact, with the update to Android 4.4 Kit Kat Access to this function has been standardized, making it much easier to find newcomers and even those who have been in the Android world for longer, who had to know their terminals in depth to know the route to follow or who in some cases had to resort to. to external applications to be able to take the screenshot.

If your mobile terminal is currently running with the latest version of Android, you will only have to press the power button and the lower volume key. With this you should see the option to take a screenshot on your display.

Samsung, the exception

If you have a Samsung terminal, things change since in that case the manufacturer has set its own standard. In fact, to take a screenshot on these phones you will have to use the power keys plus the Home button to obtain the same result as in the previous case.

Devices prior to Android 4.4

Most manufacturers opted for the two methods specified above as access to the screenshots on Android. So before you despair, regardless of the brand of your device and the version of the OS with which you roll, try both accesses. If it doesn't work, the particular manufacturer may have introduced a different system. In that case, leave us a comment with the model of your terminal and we will try to find out what it is. Although it could also be that your Android mobile does not allow you to take screenshots natively.

If it is the case and you cannot do screenshots on Android from your device, you will have to go to external applications to be able to carry it out. Although there are many that are offered on Google Play, which also allow more advanced configurations than those of the original terminal and which are recommended if you are going to really use that function, in this case we are left with the ScreenShot Ultimate app. I choose it for two main reasons. It is free, and compatible with devices running from Android 2.1 onwards, so even older phones allow in this case to have the option of screenshots despite not supporting it.