screenshot-framer 0.1.0

A robust, Pillow-based alternative to fastlane frameit for composing premium mobile marketing screenshots.

screenshot-framer

A robust, Python-based CLI tool to composite premium marketing screenshots for iOS and Android applications.

screenshot-framer was built as a lightweight, flexible alternative to fastlane frameit. It bypasses the common system-level ImageMagick/FreeType font rendering failures by relying entirely on Python's self-contained Pillow library for image composition, device rounding, drop shadows, and responsive text overlay.

Features

• No ImageMagick Required: Pure Python image manipulation using Pillow.
• Dynamic Text Scaling: Automatically scales down long titles so they never clip off the edge of your marketing canvas.
• Modern Device Styling: Instead of forcing clunky hardware bezels onto your UI, it elegantly rounds the corners of your raw screenshots and applies a premium Gaussian drop-shadow, floating it over your chosen background.
• Fastlane Compatible: Can parse your existing title.strings and keyword.strings files directly.

Installation

pip install screenshot-framer

Usage

Create a configuration JSON file (e.g. framer_config.json) in your project:

{
  "base_dir": "./fastlane/metadata/android/en-US",
  "background": "./fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/background.png",
  "title_font": "/System/Library/Fonts/SFCompact.ttf",
  "keyword_font": "/System/Library/Fonts/SFCompact.ttf",
  "title_color": "#ffffff",
  "keyword_color": "#c8c8c8",
  "device_radius_phone": 80,
  "device_radius_tablet": 60,
  "shadow_radius": 50,
  "shadow_opacity": 150,
  "fallback_title": "Upnext",
  "default_disclaimer": "TV SHOW METADATA PROVIDED BY TVMAZE.COM"
}

Then run the tool from your terminal:

screenshot-framer --config framer_config.json

How It Works

1. Discovery: The script scans the base_dir/images/phoneScreenshots and tenInchScreenshots directories.
2. Matching: It maps your raw screenshots to the translated strings in title.strings.
3. Compositing: It scales your background, frames your screenshot with rounded corners, adds a premium drop shadow, and responsively fits your Title and Keyword text.
4. Export: It outputs _framed.png files ready for the App Store and Google Play.

Automating PyPI Deployment via GitHub Actions

This library uses GitHub Actions for CI/CD. To deploy updates automatically:

1. Make sure you have created an account on PyPI.org.
2. Set up Trusted Publishers on PyPI for your GitHub repository (this means you don't need any passwords/secrets).
3. Push a new GitHub Release (e.g., v0.1.1), and the .github/workflows/publish.yml action will automatically build and publish the wheel to PyPI.