Get Android P's 'Markup' Native Screenshot Editor on Any Android Device

For a long time, Android aficionados take complained that the OS lacked any native screenshot editing tools. Their pleas take been on a steady rise since third-party phone makers started integrating such solutions, but Google's Pixel and Nexus devices with their make of 'stock Android' didn't take anything to offer.

However, it seems Google may have finally heard the community and has added a native screenshot editing tool, called Markup, in Android P'due south developer preview. This new tool enables you to simply tap an edit button from the screenshot notification and scribble over it using either a pen or marker. You likewise go a selection of colors (seven to be exact), disengage and redo buttons, and the ability to crop images.

This screenshot editing tool is decent, not too characteristic-rich, and gets the task done. At that place'southward still a lot of scope for improvement, but you can still get 'Markup' on your device if you lot are looking for a basic screenshot editing tool.

Recognized XDA developer Quinny899 has managed to port the Markup tool and has made it bachelor for download on XDA Forums. You just demand to install information technology, like you'd do with any other app, and use it to edit any image available on your smartphone.

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Notation: The developer has highlighted that the Markup editing tool will merely work on ARM64 chipsets, which you can check it by downloading the CPU-Z app. I tried this characteristic on my Xiaomi Redmi Note iii and it worked perfectly fine.

When you lot've captured a screenshot on your Android device, you lot simply need to tap the 'Share' push button and cull the Markup app which will appears in the share menu. Select the same and you'll be greeted with an interface similar to what y'all've seen on Android P. That's it.

This is a bully first try at providing users with a native screenshot editing tool and we would like to see Google add more than features to the Markup app.

Download the 'Markup' editing tool APK right hither.