Android video capture to GIF via ffmpeg, in one command!

Heavily inspired from:

• https://medium.com/sebs-top-tips/tip-create-gifs-of-your-apps-1bd76859dc3a
• https://gist.github.com/lorenzos/e8a97c1992cddf9c1142

## Prerequisites

• Your Android device MUST run on Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
• Your Android device MUST be connected via USB

Setup

Make sure adb is installed

whereis adb

If not please follow: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html

Install ffmpeg

You need to install FFMPEG first

MacOS

Please follow instructions at: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/MacOSX
It's dead simple via homebrew:

brew install ffmpeg

Grant execute rights on the script

Before first start, get the rights to run it: chmod +x robotgif.sh

Usage

Simply run ./robotgif.sh
Your GIF will appear in the current working directory: ./video_android.gif

Specify parameters

Possible to use a combination of parameters

Video Input

• Bitrate for video capture (Mbps)

./robotgif.sh -bitrate 6
./robotgif.sh -b 6

GIF output

• GIF width in px

./robotgif.sh -width 400
./robotgif.sh -w 400

Show help

./robotgif.sh -h

Run it from anywhere

http://askubuntu.com/questions/153251/launch-shell-scripts-from-anywhere