Making Art on iPad ~Screen Recording

07/14/2012

The more you know what an app can do, the more you see how you can use it with your students. So, I've been playing and exploring on the iPad all summer.

Last night I decided to try to make an image to communicate our new weekly #ArtsEd Chat on Twitter (Join us!). To make this image I used the Brushes App to draw, ArtStudio App to add text, create an overlay effect, and import an image I borrowed from the PlayArt app. I thought it might be helpful to demonstrate how to do all these steps, so I practiced using another app called, Display Recorder (which is not in the Apple store right now for some mysterious reason) to make a screencast on the ipad. I uploaded it to youtube (see below).

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Ben link

07/14/2012 2:19pm

Unfortunately, the Display Recorder App has been pulled from the app store because it appears it shouldn't have been there in the first place. Apple is very strict with developer guidelines and what apps can and can't do. For example, the wildly popular Camera+ app was pulled back in 2010 because it allowed for the volume up button to be remapped as the camera shutter (something that is now common place in iOS, but was forbidden at the time).

It appears that the Display Recorder App was mimicking the ability to take screenshots of the device (in rapid succession to produce the recording), and Apple doesn't like it when apps do what built in functions of the of the phone already do (http://9to5mac.com/2012/06/18/previously-jailbreak-only-apple-allows-ios-display-recorder-app-into-app-store/).

My guess, and the what some of the developer blogs are saying, is that Apple was alerted to the app when the developer of a jailbreak app found on the Cydia store filed a complaint. Apparently the Display Recorder App you have here was a "knock off" of his original jailbreak app, and submitted to the official app store. If you're willing to jailbreak your device, you could install the Cydia jailbreak store and install from there :)

OR, you could install the Reflections App on your desktop or laptop Mac, and then record your iOS device from the screen of your mac using any basic screen recording tool. Bummer that you lost a valuable app, but it looks like it won't be coming back anytime soon.

Tricia

07/14/2012 4:28pm

Thanks Ben so much for that info. I knew you would be up on this.
I downloaded the Display Recorder app while it was on sale in the app store. It's what I used to make this video today. Apple won't remove it from my device even though it was pulled from the apple store, right?

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