SCREENSHOTS AND ICONS ASO

MAKE PROMOTIONAL IMAGES

On many Android devices, you can capture a screenshot with a
key-combination: Simultaneously press-and-hold Power and
Volume-down. You can also capture a screenshot with Android
Studio as follows:

1. Run your app on a connected device or emulator. If using

a connected device, be sure you have enabled USB
debugging.
2. In Android Studio, select View > Tool Windows >
Logcat to open Logcat.
3. Select the device and a process from the drop-down at
the top of the window.

4. Click Screen Capture on the left side of the

window.The screenshot appears in a Screenshot
Editor window.
Tip: On Android 7.0 and higher, open Settings,
select Developer options > Demo mode, and enable Show
demo mode. This resets the status bar to temporarily
remove notifications and sets the signal and battery
levels to full. For more information, see Configure On-
Device Developer Options.
 Figure 1. Screenshot editor

5. Optionally change the image:

Recapture: Take a new screenshot.
Rotate Left: Rotate the image 90 degrees counter-
clockwise.
Rotate Right: Rotate the image 90 degrees
clockwise.
Frame Screenshot: Choose a device to wrap your
screenshot with real device artwork. Select Drop
Shadow, Screen Glare, or both to add these effects
to your image.
Note: If you select a device for the screenshot
frame that differs from the actual device you
captured, the editor stretches your image to match
the dimensions of the device frame. You instead
might want to use the online Device Art Generator,
which offers device frames for other popular
devices.

6. Click Save, specify the location and filename, and then

click OK.
HOW TO MAKE “ASO
SCREENSHOTS”, RULES:
Look at snapchat screenshots:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Tg8j7ifezVWfWJW6RMqBpNYF6_aC
isp0kzwuN8XKulfOyYS0aBs3fgzURi9T1IgkETbL=h900-rw

They are using some phone mockup, try to find free to use
mockups in PSD for photoshop:
https://cssauthor.com/smartphone-mockup-psd/

Open template in Photoshop and paste your screenshot inside

phone.
Add text, my personal favourite font for screenshot is
“Impact”

Save file, in PNG (this will allow to not save exif tags to
identify your computer). In file name type one of your
keyword, it works for Google Play internal database and helps
to ASO your app better.

Next… next screenshot, it’s the best when you add maximum 3
screenshots.

Avoid:
-long text (but add keyword) – 2019 update and cognitive
search
-showing ads on screenshots
-using copyrighted materials
-putting icons instead screenshots in Google Play console, it
will cause ban because one spammer used this feature so often

Icons are 512×512 PNG images, rule is simple and tested by me

from beggining. Works great and breaking this rule will always
damage your installs. You are not brand, you have not millions
of dollars to promote your cool symbol icon like McDonalds,
Avast, Supercell, etc. Do not try to make icon with symbol,
cool logo, etc. People will forget it in next 5 minutes…
instead of that use keyword on icon like here, protips, some
icons were stolen from me by other devs:

It’s simple, you need to write big keyword on your icon to

bring attention of users who are looking for feature.
Of course, you need to name your icon with keyword too.