When recording on Android it is showing an green recording icon on the top right corner of the recorded screen. This icon disappears after a while but still is very annoying... it visually ruins the recording. This did not happen in older versions of recording kit. Is there a way to avoid this?
#Recording of Screen on Android contains an Android Screen Capture Icon.
coral grove
autumn geyser
We don't have control over it as it's something android os handles. May I know on which version your are on?
coral grove
I'm on Android 13 and tested on a Samsung Galaxy A14. Strange, that this did not happen on an older Recoder-kit Version 2.1.0. I have updated to version 2.2.0 which seems to be different. thanks for your quick reply.
autumn geyser
Can you please send me a video about the concern to be on same page?
coral grove
sure. here it is. on the top right corner, you can see the android recording icon
the recorded video always contains a black top bar always.
this line is also black in my unity3d application. unity3d is not using it. maybe because it is used by android to displays battery, wlan, etc. - but is not used in unity and therefore black
coral grove
yes, but it was not here in the old version of recorder kit. I am also testing other unity plugins like AVPro Screen Capture which is not showing this recording icon. Thanks for the link for clarification. For my usecase, I must avoid that android icon - this does not look professional anymore 😦
autumn geyser
Ok, IIRC, there isn't any major change other than a bug fix on android. However, will see if anything can be done programatically. But I doubt as its something samsung implements as part of privacy.
coral grove
so there is no mode to record only the screen within the app itself? because at the moment I understand samsung security concerns, because when I start the recording and switch to my email app - everything is recorded. This is not the case with AVPro Screen Capture. It only records the stuff inside the app - even if I receive a message while recording, it does not record that. The reason I do not record from a camera, because that would require a second unity3d camera which will cost too much performance.
by the way: AVPro Screen Capture is also not triggering the warning dialog which appears before recording with Record-kit.
autumn geyser
Ok, the plugin records what ever is visible on screen.
Starting Android 14, Only some devices shows an option to record within app or complete screen, but this is not fully rolled out by google.
However, you can try the below until we finish our custom implementaiton where we allow recording per camera/app screen alone.
- In application pause, call pause recording
- In application resue, call resume recording