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Nowadays, users would like to cast or record their Android device to computer (Mac or Windows) for some reasons such as gameplay strategy and skills guide, business presentation etc. In this way, a good Android recorder is extremely important for the job. Now, this guide would show you how to mirror and record screen with the Apowersoft Android Recorder program.

Full Guide to Record Android Screen

Step 1Preparation for Recording Android

1. ApowerREC is a multipurpose screen recording software that enables you to record desktop and webcam activities with system sound and microphone sound. And it provides many recording mode options, such as task recording, auto stop recording, autO split recording, locked window recording, zoom recording, and more.
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Before you start to record your Android screen, you should firstly prepare for the following items:

Method 5: APowerSoft Online Screen Recorder If you prefer a web-based solution, APowerSoft offers an online recorder. The name though, appears to be a bit misleading – when attempting to try the software, we found that it does ask you to download a small package.

1. Confirm that your Android has connected the same Wi-Fi with Windows PC or Mac
2. Require Android 5 or later versions
3. Download the Apowersoft Android Recorder program on your Windows PC or Mac by clicking the correct button below.
Step 2Launch the Apowersoft Android Recorder
After you download and install the Apowersoft Android Recorder program on your computer, please launch it! For some of the users who may set up a firewall for PC, you can see a pop-up window to ask for the privilege of accessing. Please select the two items on the interface and then click on the 'Allow access' button.
Step 3Connect Your Android to Computer and Start to Mirror
To connect your Android to computer, you can choose one of the following three ways:
1. Connect via built-in Chromecast
2. Use Google Home for Connection
3. Download Apowersoft Screen Recorder App for Connection
Actually, when talking about the connection between smartphone and computer, you may come up with the way by using USB cable. However, it doesn't work with this case here and you need to select one the three methods for the connection. Now, let's see how they work in details.

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1. Connect via built-in Chromecast
To connect your device to computer via the Google's Chromecast, your Android device needs to be equipped with built-in Chromecast. Normally, not all the Android devices would get the built-in cast screen feature. But the Nexus phone would always equips with it.
On the Android, please slide down your phone screen and tap on the 'Cast' icon on the interface. Now, you can see 'Apowersoft[your computer name]' icon on the screen. Please continue to tap on it and your Android screen would be connected on computer.
2. Use Google Home for Connection
To connect your Android to computer, please firstly download Google Home app on your device from Google Play. Then run it and tap on the more icon on upper left corner of the interface. After that, choose the 'Cast screen/audio' option and tap on the icon with your computer name (available device). Then you can see your Android has been mirrored on computer successfully.

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3. Download Apowersoft Screen Recorder App for Connection
If you fail to use the above two ways to connect your Android to computer, using the third-party recording tool - Apowersoft Screen Recorder can be a good choice.
Now, please download and install Apowersoft Screen Recorder app from Google Play Store on your Android. Launch the app and tap on the menu button on the top left corner. On the interface, please choose 'Cast to PC' option and then 'Cast' button to start connection. After that, all the activities on mobile screen can be streamed to your computer.
Step 4Record Your Android Phone Easily
If your Android is successfully connected to computer, you can see your Android screen would be mirrored or displayed on your Windows/Mac via the Android recorder app. Please click on the red record button on the upper left corner to start recording. When you would like to stop or finish it, all you need to do is to click on the stop button and the recording video would be exported to your computer.
Tips:
1. With the screen recorder for Android, you can also capture a screen shot of your Android by simply clicking on the camera-like icon, which would be saved as PNG file on computer.
2. Every time you record your Android or take a screen shot with the app, the exported files would be automatically saved on your computer. And you don't even have to navigate to the location manually as the folder with your exported files would pop up itself.
3. You can also try to record your Android by utilizing the Apowersoft Screen Recorder app and the recording video would be directly saved on your Android.
Step 5Disconnect Android
After your finish recording, please simply click on the power-like button on the top pane to disconnect Android to computer.
If you have any question about this guide or get any idea to share, please let us know by leaving a message on the comment area below.

ApowerREC is a multipurpose screen recording software that enables you to record desktop and webcam activities with system sound and microphone sound. And it provides many recording mode options, such as task recording, auto stop recording, autO split recording, locked window recording, zoom recording, and more. With its annotation tools, you can easily use this recorder to draw lines, circles, arrows, or add texts to the screen during the recording. Now, this guide will guide you on how to use ApowerREC to record the content that you want.

How to Use ApowerREC?

Get Started

Installation

• Download ApowerREC and double click the finished apk file to install the program.
• From the pop-up window, choose your preferred language and go ahead.
• When the “Select Additional Tasks” window shows up, kindly confirm each option and click “Next” once finished.
• The installation should be done within few seconds, and then, you can select to launch the program and click “Finish” to exit setup.

Registration and Activation

If you want to enjoy the full version rather than the trial version which has certain using limitaions, a VIP purchase is needed. If you have already had an account before the purchase, your existing account will automatically become VIP. Simply log out the account and restart the program, then, directly log into the account with your email and password is alright. For further details regarding the account registration and activation, please refer to this FAQ post.

Set Preferences

Floating Toolbar

The recording/floating toolbar will show up once the recording is started. But if you want to hide it during the recording, simply check the option down below is alright.

Output Format (Windows Only)

Multiple formats are also available for you to select for video output (MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, FLV,etc.), audio output (MP3, AAC, OGG, WMA, FLAC,etc.) and screenshot output (JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF,etc.).

Output Folder

All the recordings will be saved directly to the local disk on your computer, so you can select the default saving directory under the output folder option. Please make sure that the folder you choose has enough storage space for the recording file size, otherwise, the recording may not be saved successfully.

Hotkeys

Hotkey enables you to conduct certain features quickly. You can change the default hotkey settings by choosing the feature and reselect the hotkey combinations.

Auto Stop

After entering the “Record Screen” mode from the mainboard, you will notice the auto-stop recording feature. You can use this function to set the auto-stop time for the recording or to decide that when the recording should be finished when its file size reaches a certain limit.

Mouse Settings

You can choose whether to include the mouse cursor in the recording, what the color of the mouse cursor will be, and how much mouse area will show up in the recording.

Quality Settings (Windows Only)

Standard, high and original quality options are available within this smart screen recorder. However, it also depends on your device’s functionality that whether you can record in high or original quality fluently. If the device functionality is low, it’s suggested to select standard quality as the first option in order to let the recording process be influential.

Record Screen

Start Recording

1. Select the recording area

To record the screen, please enter “Record Screen” mode first, then click the downward arrow at the “Full” button. Then, you can choose whether to record the full screen, fixed region, or selected region. Once the recording region is decided, simply click the red REC button to start the recording is alright.

2. Select the audio input
To record sound, click the downward arrow next to the “System sound” button. From there, you can choose to record system sound, microphone, both or no audio at all. Meanwhile, please enter the sound settings which is the last option under this menu to make sure that you have selected the default system sound on PC and the plugged-in microphone device.

3. Record webcam

Please plug in the camera device first, and click the webcam icon to choose the plugged-in webcam device name. If the camera device is not detected, please relaunch the program and it should be fine by then. In the meantime, you can enter the camera settings to set other configurations for the camera image.

4. Click “REC” button or press default hotkeys (F7) to begin the recording.

Note: If you want to record sound only, simply back to the mainboard and choose “Record Audio” mode is fine.

Floating Toolbar

Once the recording is started, a recording toolbar will show up to assist you during the recording, such as take screenshots, add annotations, use zoom recording or spotlight recording mode.

Annotate recording

Click the pencil-like icon on the recording toolbar to open the annotation panel. This real-time editing feature allows you to add lines, arrows, serial numbers, texts, etc.

Within this annotation tool, you can also open the whiteboard and mark on the screen.

Zoom Recording (Windows Only)

Zoom recording enables you to enlarge a certain part of the screen. And the zoom recording area will follow where your mouse curosr goes.

Spotlight Recording (Windows Only)

This feature helps you to highlight a certain part of the screen.

Split Recording

This function allows you to decide when to save a recording file automatically during the recording when the recording time reaches a certain length, or when the file size reaches a certain storage size.

Locked Window recording (Windows Only)

This mode allows you to record a certain window only. Even if you open other programs during the recording process, they won’t be included in the video.

Edit Recording (Windows Only)

To edit the video, right-click the video file under the video list, then select “Edit”.

Trim the Video

After entering the editing mode, simply drag the two icons pointed out as below to trim the video length.

Add Intro & Outro

Click the option shown as below to add title or subtitle.

Add Watermark or image

Furthermore, images and texts can also be put onto the recording. Just click the “water drop” shown in the image below and choose whether you want to add images or texts is alright.

Create Task Recording

Using this task scheduler, you can set the start and stop time for the recording, so that you won’t need to start and stop the recording manually.

Upload videos

Once the recording is finished, it will be saved to the default saving folder you have selected under the settings. Meanwhile, you can also check it from the video list and upload it to the video cloud platform RecCloud.

Help & Support

Community Support

No matter you are seeking support or simply want to share some tips with other ApowerREC’s community members, just join the community and dive into our hot discussion. Meanwhile, you can check this support page for troubleshooting if encounter any problems during using the program.

Feedback & Ticket Support

To send us feedback, please enter the “Menu” and click “Feedback”. Kindly leave your email and describe the issue you are having with the program there and send it to us. Most importantly, please do not uncheck the option of “Send log file” within the feedback so that our technician can use it to locate the program issues and find solutions accordingly. And we will then get back to you as soon as the solution comes out!

Alternatively, you can also submit a ticket and describe the problems there and send it to us. We will get back to you ASAP!