DroidRec is an open-source Android screen recorder

When I click Start recording the app asks for permission, then crashes.

04-30 14:27:25.978 25827 25827 D AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.yakovlevegor.DroidRec, PID: 25827
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service com.yakovlevegor.DroidRec.ScreenRecorder@a5be2f2 with null: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String android.content.Intent.getAction()' on a null object reference
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:3787)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap23(ActivityThread.java)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1764)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6816)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1563)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1451)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String android.content.Intent.getAction()' on a null object reference
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.yakovlevegor.DroidRec.ScreenRecorder.onStartCommand(ScreenRecorder.java:159)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:3770)
04-30 14:27:25.979 25827 25827 E AndroidRuntime:        ... 8 more

I am using the f-droid version on Android 7.1

Upon resuming the recording after pausing, it doesn't create a second video file. Same thing happens when I rotate my screen, it restarts the recording but doesn't make a second video file.

I'm on Android 11, using the latest version of the app from F-Droid. Not sure what kind of info you'll need. Just let me know.

Thanks in advance

Hello! There is an open source android recording app called screencam, that does support internal audio recording (with the mic), but is unmaintained, and maybe you could use its code for some new features (like internal audio recording, for rooted audio recording and whatnot). It would be great to have a maintained recording app with internal audio (plus screen cam has some anti features...). Here is the link to their source code: https://gitlab.com/vijai/screenrecorder

Hello, I use this app on Android 7.1 / API 25 and I have this crash in my logs. Here is a link to Notification.NotificationBuilder for convenience

04-30 15:00:02.914 31029 31029 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
04-30 15:00:02.914 31029 31029 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.yakovlevegor.DroidRec, PID: 31029
04-30 15:00:02.914 31029 31029 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No direct method <init>(Landroid/content/Context;Ljava/lang/String;)V in class Landroid/app/Notification$Builder; or its super classes (declaration of 'android.app.Notification$Builder' appears in /system/framework/framework.jar)
04-30 15:00:02.914 31029 31029 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.yakovlevegor.DroidRec.ScreenRecorder.screenRecordingStart(ScreenRecorder.java:323)
04-30 15:00:02.914 31029 31029 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.yakovlevegor.DroidRec.ScreenRecorder.actionStart(ScreenRecorder.java:193)
04-30 15:00:02.914 31029 31029 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.yakovlevegor.DroidRec.ScreenRecorder.onStartCommand(ScreenRecorder.java:160)
04-30 15:00:02.914 31029 31029 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:3770)
04-30 15:00:02.914 31029 31029 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap23(ActivityThread.java)
04-30 15:00:02.914 31029 31029 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1764)

Description This is a bug report about components that have accessibility issues within the GUI of such an App. Content After I applied my proposed tool to detect the content page, I discovered the following components which have the accessibility issues, and I sincerely struggled you could repair these issues so that the visually impaired users would use this App more conveniently. In practical, each component in the index page suffer from narrow intervals, I would appreciate it If the interval of these components can be enlarged.

I updated from 2.3 to 2.5 using the F-Droid release. After selecting a recording folder and allowing access using the file manager I tried to start a recording. However then I get the toast message: "Error:Storage permission required"

I guess this is related to commit https://github.com/yakovlevegor/DroidRec/commit/61deb1d352710b3734cd2131e053af7e69545bf8 which added FileProvider Support on Androd 9 and lower.

I am on Android 10 and with 2.3 I was asked for the recording folder which seemed to work. The recording aborted quickly but a 0 byte file was created in the folder. So writing to the folder worked.

I can not give information about other issue with the failed recording because I am stuck before. Will open a new issue if this isn't fixed with newer releases.

Noticed that there is 2.9 already but I guess the storage issue is not adressed there.

Hey Guys

I love the simplicity of the app, I see that's the beauty of it, that being said is there any possibility of adding a trigger to start screen recording from within the notification centre pull down?

Kind Regards Adrian

I cannot set custom bitrate for recording. It automatically changes back to a very large bitrate. Most times it's 2147483647, sometimes it's another number. Before it was okay. Now I encounter this problem in every version I have: 2.3 2.5 3.0 3.1. I got the apps from F-droid and Droid-ify's F-droid repository. My phone is Android 12, MIUI 13.0.7.

Best open source screen recording app for Android, but I wonder:

• Can you provide an option within the application to record clicks instead of activating it from the developers mode every time.
• Can you make the floating control not appear in the recording regardless of the opacity

Thanks

In many screen recording apps there is a 'Show touches' function, which simply shows a point on the screen in the recording, which simply shows a point in the recording where the user touches the screen, and is quite useful for some occasions. Also, many use the own phone accessibility settings (like xRecorder) to do this, so it may not be that complex to implement.

Thanks for making this app!

I guess https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/10893 is opened by you and you can't get notification. Could you please check my commet?

Hi Egor !

I just downloaded DroidRec v2.5 from F-Droid, but it soon became apparent that upon screen recording, the audio is not captured.

However, DroidRec does record the microphone output.

Having read the thread at https://github.com/yakovlevegor/DroidRec/issues/16, audio recording has been an ongoing problem, which sadly hasn't been resolved.

I even tried a previous build where you specifically stated the "audio format" had been fixed (from https://github.com/yakovlevegor/DroidRec/issues/16#issuecomment-1332175873), yet despite this the audio stream was still not being recorded.

Hope this issue may finally been rectified.

Appreciate your work Egor, and your TorBridgesUpdater app sounds like an excellent idea. I have yet to give it try. 👍

I suspect this isn't that easy to implement, but it would be great to be able to edit/trim the video afterwards. That would make the app more competitive with the closed source alternatives.

Is it possible to add an option to delay the recording? The App is always in the foreground in the beginning. An option to delay the recording would allow to bring it in the backround and wait for the notification pop up to disappear.

First of all, thank you very much for your app, it works extremely well.

And now to business. I don't intend to come off as rude, I'm just a perfectionist, however I had noticed that the Hebrew README is a bit hard to understand, so I wondered whether you'd be interested in me proofreading whatever is in Hebrew in this GitHub repository?

I already translate a few pieces of software to Hebrew (such as MiXplorer or the Budgie DE) when I have the time, if you wish to see to what standards I uphold myself.