Android 14 will make it easier for users to record their screens without worrying about notifications, status bars, and system UI elements from appearing on the video.
If you’re sharing a screen recording with others, you might be sending the recipients notifications that arrived on your Android phone while you were recording. There could be something embarrassing or personal on a notification that makes it onto your screen recording forcing you to either share this info with others or make another recording. According to tech journalist (and the smartest guy in the room) Mishaal Rahman, he has been able to implement a feature that in Android 14 will address this issue.
Currently, on stock Android, you see a countdown before a recording of the screen starts. But you still have to hope that heads-up notifications don’t start pouring down on the screen. On Android 14 when you decide to do a screen recording, you can choose to record the full screen, which is the default, or just a single app. If you want to record a single app, you can select one of the last three most recent apps. You can swipe left or right on the carousel to view more recent apps that you can choose from.
Rahman posted a couple of tweets that show how in Android 14 you can record a single app without any of the System UI elements or notifications appearing in the video of the screen that you want to share.
