.Net MAUI - Capturing Screenshot

In this tutorial, we will see how to capture screenshots on cross platforms using .Net MAUI. The name "Screenshots" indicates, the image that is the screen of our device allows us to capture the exact situation we want in the application when we use it.

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• Project Setup
• Implementation
• Demo
• Full Code
• Download Code

Project Setup:

• Launch Visual Studio 2022, and in the start window click Create a new project to create a new project.
  
• In the Create a new project window, select MAUI in the All project types drop-down, select the .NET MAUI App template, and click the Next button:
  
• In the configure your new project window, name your project, choose a suitable location for it, and click the Next button:
  
• In the Additional information window, click the Create button:
  
• Once the project is created, we can able to see the Android, iOS, Windows and other running options in the toolbar. Press the emulator or run button to build and run the app
  

Implementation:

• To take a screenshot, .NET MAUI provides us with the IScreenshot interface which is exposed by the Screenshot.Default component in the Microsoft.Maui.Media namespace.
• In Solution Explorer, click MainPage.xaml and replace the page content with what is shown below:
• Open the MainPage.xaml.cs file and the page content as shown below:
• IsCaptureSupported: Returns a bool value – Gets a value indicating whether the capturing screenshots are supported.
• CaptureAsync: Returns an ISscreenshotResult. – It is responsible for taking screenshots of the current application. Therefore, we can get various information about it, such as width and height.
• Stream: IScreenshotResult also has a Stream property that is used to convert the screenshot to an image object.
• Assign the derived stream value to the image control as ImageSource.
• To know more about animations, please visit https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/user-interface/animation/easing

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