Wear OS provides several ways to capture the Wear OS UI:

- **Android Studio**: use Logcat to take screenshots.
- **Companion app** : on Google Pixel Watch devices, use the **Take wearable
  screenshot** option to take screenshots.
- **Screen record for Wear OS**: record a video of the screen.

## Capture screenshots in Android Studio


Capturing screenshots of your wearable app's UI using Android Studio is similar to capturing
screenshots on mobile. Use the following steps:

1. Open your app in [Android Studio](https://developer.android.com/studio).
2. Run your app on a device or an emulator.
3. Navigate to the screen you want to capture on the device or in the emulator.
4. Open [Logcat](https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/am-logcat) and click the screenshot icon. It might be beneath the overflow menu.
5. Optionally, select **Frame Screenshot** and select a round chrome.
6. Click **Save**.

## Capture screenshots with the companion app


To take screenshots of a Google Pixel Watch device, you can use the [Google Pixel Watch](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.wear.companion) companion app. Follow these steps:

1. On your UI, find the screen that you want to capture.
2. On the Android phone, enable **Developer options** , if you haven't already, by going to **Settings \> About phone** , and tapping **Build number** *seven times.*
3. Open the Wear companion app on your phone.
4. Tap the three dot overflow button in the upper-righthand corner to open the menu.
5. Tap **Take wearable screenshot** . The following message appears: **Screenshot request sent** . Then you receive the following notifications: **Ready to send watch screenshot** and **tap to send**.
6. Tap the notification to receive options for sending or sharing the screenshot using Bluetooth, Gmail, or other options.

## Use screen record for Wear OS


If you develop on macOS, you can use the GitHub project
[Android tool for Mac](https://github.com/mortenjust/androidtool-mac/blob/master/README.md) to record a video from your Wear OS device.


Alternatively, record a video from your Wear OS device using the following steps:

1. Record raw frames on the watch, as shown in the following:  

   ```text
   adb shell screenrecord --time-limit 30 --output-format raw-frames --verbose /sdcard/video.raw
   ```
2. Copy the raw file to your development machine, as shown in the following:  

   ```text
   adb pull /sdcard/video.raw video.raw
   ```
3. Use `ffmpeg` to convert the raw file to MP4, as shown in the following:  

   ```scdoc
   ffmpeg -f rawvideo -vcodec rawvideo -s 400x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -i video.raw -an -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p video.mp4
   ```


**Note:** Refer to the
[FFmpeg website](https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html) for download
and installation instructions.