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To record the Android screen using the native adb commands and then downloading it from the device sd card to the local machine
#Check if an argument was supplied
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "No argument supplied, please provide video name"
else
# start recording
adb shell screenrecord --bit-rate 6000000 /sdcard/$1.mp4 &
# Get its PID
PID=$!
# Upon a key press
read -p "Press [Enter] to stop recording..."
# Kills the recording process
kill $PID
# Wait for 3 seconds for the device to compile the video
sleep 3
# Download the video
adb pull /sdcard/$1.mp4
# Delete the video from the device
adb shell rm /sdcard/$1.mp4
# Kill background process incase kill PID fails
trap "kill 0" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
fi
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