frameit_chrome

Embed app store and play store screenshots in device frames. Drop in replacement for fastlane frameit.

Also check out the blog article for how to use frameit-chrome for flutter apps for more details: https://codeux.design/articles/automatically-add-device-frames-and-text-to-app-screenshots/

It uses a simple dart script to locate localized screenshots and parses title.strings and keyword.strings and uses chrome headless to render the screenshot with some css and html magic.

• (Screenshots from AuthPass Password Manager)

Requirements

• Dart 😅️ (for now)
• Google Chrome executable. By default, will look into /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome (tested with Chrome 86.0.4240.30).
• Screenshots and Device Frames.

Usage

Create screenshots

Use any tool to create non-framed screenshots, for flutter I've used screenshots package.

Download device frames

Download device frames from https://github.com/fastlane/frameit-frames to $HOME/frameit-frames.

Folder hierarchy

Place your screenshots into file hierarchy as used by fastlane.

metadata/
  android/ # <-- `--base-dir` argument
    en-US/
      <device-name>-<screenshot-name>.png
      samsung-galaxy-s10-plus-password_generator.png # Example
      title.strings
      keyword.strings (optional)
    de-DE/
      <device-name>-<screenshot-name>.png
      samsung-galaxy-s10-plus-password_generator.png # Example
      title.strings
      keyword.strings (optional)
    frameit.yaml (optional)
  framed/ # <-- output directory

• In the above example: <base-dir> = metadata/android
• Put Screenshots into <base-dir>/<locale>/images/
• a title.strings and keyword.strings into <base-dir>/<locale>/
• example title.strings (key must match part of the file name of the screenshot):

"password_generator" = "Great password generator!"; ```

Install frameit_chrome

pub global activate frameit_chrome

Run frameit_chrome.dart:

(Assumes frameit-frames downloaded to $HOME/frameit-frames)

pub global run frameit_chrome --base-dir=/myproject/fastlane/metadata/android --frames-dir=$HOME/frameit-frames/latest

On non-mac platforms or when you've installed Google Chrome in non-default location:

pub global run frameit_chrome --base-dir=/myproject/fastlane/metadata/android --frames-dir=$HOME/frameit-frames/latest --chrome-binary="/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"

Example

See the Example Directory as well as usage of AuthPass:

• Android: https://github.com/authpass/authpass/tree/master/authpass/android/fastlane/metadata/android
• iOS: https://github.com/authpass/authpass/tree/master/authpass/ios/fastlane/screenshots

TODO

• Allow more customizations
  • Frame screenshot overrides.
  • CSS customizations.