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About tCaptureBrowser

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"tCaptureBrowser" allows you to browse with free user agent, and capture screens.

Many web page creators face with the need of changing agent names for the test or the need of capturing web page to make the documentations.
Some bloggers will capture pages too. "tCaptureBrowser" reduces such works of creating web pages.

It has two capturing methods, [ Web Page Capture ] gets all web page, [ Screen Capture ] gets what watching on display. So you can choose better method at capturing sheen.

Setting user agent allows you to browse with emulating some devices and you can check display of web page related to specific devices. Preinstalled user agents are one of sell phone, HT-03A, iPhone, and XPERIA. Of course, you can add user agent after install.

This browser shares "bookmark" with default browser of Android. When you use another browser and face with a page needed capture, bookmark for now page. After when capturing with tCaptureBrowser, you easily jump to the page.

Recommended OS

  • Android OS 2.2 or later

Price

  • 300yen(about $3.5)

Version 1.0.7

  • Support for Android OS 4.0

Functions

Capture functions

  • Screen Capture
  • Web Page Capture

Setting of user agent

  • Change of user agent
  • Adding user agent
  • Delete user agent

Other functions

  • URL jump
  • Bookmarks
  • Change display of action using dialog

Difference of Screen Capture and Web Page Capture

There is two methods to capture pages. And settings of compression binded with caputuring functions reduces file size. Particularly, images of made by Web Page Capture can be large, so choice row resolution in the case.

Screen Capture saves current showing just on a display to a file.
The size of next image file that was captured on highest resolution is about 100KB.

tCaptureBrowser Screen Capture

Web Page Capture saves whole current page that contains invisible area on a display. Next image is captured by Web Page Capture at same state of previous one. This image is reduced for easily viewable whole image. The size of this image captured with highest resolution is about 2.3MB.

tCaptureBrowser Webpage Capture

Usage Capture function

Choosing "menu"->"More"->"Screen Capture"(or "Web Page Capture") displays setting dialog for capturing image file.

tCaptureBrowser Capture

Clicking "OK" make web page saved as image file.

tCaptureBrowser Capture

You can conform the completion of capturing by looking to showing on a display.

tCaptureBrowser Capture

Changing User Agent

Choosing "menu"->"More"->"Settings" shows settings page.

tCaptureBrowser Setting

Click "User Agent" and choose using agent at showed list. Then the step of changing user agent is finish.

If want to add a user agent, push "menu" and click showed icon to move page of adding user agents.

tCaptureBrowser Setting

Change display of action using dialog

When no check "Using Open URL", tCaptureBrowser doesn't join the list of action using dialog which is shown up by clicking URL.

tCaptureBrowser ZbeBO

tCaptureBrowser ZbeBO

When check "Using Open URL", tCaptureBrowser join the list of action using dialog.

tCaptureBrowser ZbeBO

Precautions for Capture Functions

Confirmation for sdcard

  • Set an sdcard for an Android device
  • Free space of sdcard
  • Not USB-mounted on PC

Unable to capture some pages

  • Too large size
  • Active page

Large size pages are not captured, the reason is an image size will be too large to capture. And active pages such as having a telop are sometimes not captured too. These pages are infrequently captured, but please note that it is impossible to capture all pages because of the restriction of Android OS and Android Browser.

How to confirm captured images with Xperia

Captured images are saved at sdcard, so easily checking images to use a file-explore. Here, showing how to confirm captured images with "Mediascape" that is pre-installed on Xperia.

Case Mediascape

(1).Choose "Photo"
(2).Tap "More"

Medhiascape image

(3).Slide items at the bottom of screen

Medhiascape image

(4).Choose My albums
(5).Tap CaptureBrowser

There are captured images in the folder.

Medhiascape image

Download and Install

Download tCaptureBrowser from Android Market

https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.taosoftware.andronavi.devbrowser

tCaptureBrowser Downroad

Release Note

Version 1.0.7

  • Support for Android OS 4.0

Version 1.0.6

  • supporting install to SD card

Version 1.0.5

  • Bug fix

Version 1.0.4

  • First release

Precautions for Software

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Addition

We make a customized development of software for Android. Please feel free to contact us at any time.