Taking screenshots on Android has always been a tribulation similar to an emergency visit to the dentist — you already know you must do it but you simply don’t wish to. The convoluted process involves either installing the Android SDK on a pc, enabling USB debugging at the target device, and running ddms, or rooting the specimen and firing up one of several many existing (and potentially shady) screenshot apps. Against this, taking screenshots on other platforms is frequently simply an issue of pressing the fitting key combination within the right order, like holding the sleep / wake button after which clicking the house button in iOS 4. Well it looks as if the parents at LG have decided to grace both the T-Mobile G2x and its Optimus 2X sibling with a slightly simple yet nifty little bit of code that allows you to take screenshots by simultaneously pressing both the facility / lock and residential buttons… Huzzah! Now let’s just hope Google borrows this concept and makes it an ordinary feature in all future Android versions. Look at our demo video after the break.
[Thanks, redman12]
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