fennifith/screenshotmaker

A small java applet to generate uniform Play Store screenshots with titles and descriptions.

ScreenshotMaker is small java applet used to generate uniform Play Store screenshots with titles and descriptions with minimal effort.

Installation

You might need to install some recentish version of Java. After that, you can grab a .jar file from here.

System Requirements

I've only just gotten this thing to work on my laptop (a beautiful ThinkPad T520 running Arch Linux), so I have no idea what the requirements are. I have tested it a little on Windows, and although there are a few issues (all file chooser dialogs go to System32, and none of them restrict the file extensions like they're supposed to), it seems to be usable.

Creating a Desktop Entry

On most versions of Linux, you can create a desktop entry that will appear in whatever version of start menu your desktop environment uses by going to "file -> create desktop entry" and waiting for the ridiculously ugly confirmation dialog to appear. If you have followed instructions like these to set up a fingerprint sensor as an alternative to entering your password for the sudo command, you may need to swipe your fingerprint before the dialog will appear. I don't know why this happens. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm bad at things.

Usage

Simply enter a title, description, pick your colors and other preferences, choose a 16:9 screenshot to put in the frame, and hit "export image" to choose a location to save your screenshot.

Saving Templates

You can save sets of preferences as ".sm" files for easier use in the future by going to "file -> save as", then "file -> open" when you next want to use it.

screenshotmaker's Issues

Support for rounded corners & notches

Might be easier (& better) to add the option to move the frame into the foreground if the screen area is transparent.

Start Menu Shortcut on Windows/Mac OS

Linux was easy, but I'm not sure how this works on Windows and Mac. This and this might be useful.

Support for Different Aspect Ratios

The app currently resizes all pictures to fit 16:9. Would be good to support 18:9 (pixel 2), 18.5:9 (S8), etc. Or I could just make it scale the image instead of resizing it.

Use grandiensts as background

The app could take 2 colors in input and result in a gradient following TL_BR pattern as the background

Can't Import Image More Than Once per instance

Not sure what's causing it, only started seeing it today. Weird.

X Offset For Custom Frames

For phones that might not be perfectly centered in the middle of whatever image is being used. 2D rotation might be useful as well. Not sure if 3D rotation is possible, I'll have to look into it.

Load custom phone frames

Would be nice to have an option for loading custom phone frames.

Open/Save Dialogs are Broken on Windows

They work, but file extensions aren't enforced and for some reason they always default to the System32 folder, which is a little annoying.

Convert to Web/Electron app

Java/Swing may have been a bad choice of what to use for this project. It has become fairly disorganized, and there is a fair amount of redundant code. It is also not that easy (it isn't difficult, but for such a small project it seems a bit odd) to install/set up. Ensuring cross-platform support also comes with its own set of difficulties. As a result, I believe it might be better to instead create a website (and possibly an Electron app) with the same functionality. It will pretty much need to be rewritten from scratch, but I can live with that.

Multi-line descriptions

Bigger export resolution

Shouldn't be a higer resolution export a good option?
On a device with a good display the image is a little bit chunky, do you think it's possible to make it bigger?

Export in different resolutions doesn't work

(Tested on a mac running OS X el capitan with the latest version of the tool)
Independently on which selection of output pixels size is chosen, the screenshot will be always exported with the lowest one