On my device, I see the following entries in the logcat:
06-01 13:08:12.062 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (StatusBar#0)
06-01 13:08:12.167 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (Splash Screen com.android.settings#0)
06-01 13:08:12.271 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (Splash Screen com.android.settings#0)
06-01 13:08:12.378 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (Splash Screen com.android.settings#0)
06-01 13:08:12.404 2135 2205 I BufferQueue: [unnamed-2135-34](this:0x7639f47000,id:34,api:0,p:-1,c:-1) BufferQueue core=(2135:/system/bin/surfaceflinger)
06-01 13:08:12.404 2135 2205 I BufferQueueConsumer: [unnamed-2135-34](this:0x7639f47000,id:34,api:0,p:-1,c:2135) connect(C): consumer=(2135:/system/bin/surfaceflinger) controlledByApp=false
06-01 13:08:12.486 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (Splash Screen com.android.settings#0)
06-01 13:08:12.599 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:12.599 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (Splash Screen com.android.settings#0)
06-01 13:08:12.705 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:12.705 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (Splash Screen com.android.settings#0)
06-01 13:08:12.810 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:12.918 2135 2135 I chatty : uid=1000(system) /system/bin/surfaceflinger identical 1 line
06-01 13:08:13.025 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:13.133 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:13.240 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:13.347 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:13.454 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:13.775 2135 2135 I chatty : uid=1000(system) /system/bin/surfaceflinger identical 3 lines
06-01 13:08:13.903 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:14.011 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:14.115 2135 2135 I chatty : uid=1000(system) /system/bin/surfaceflinger identical 1 line
06-01 13:08:14.222 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:14.329 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:14.436 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:14.564 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:20.084 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:20.193 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:20.299 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:20.426 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:21.301 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
06-01 13:08:21.428 2135 2135 I SurfaceFlinger: screenshot (com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$DevelopmentSettingsDashboardActivity#0)
Whenever I do something on the screen, loads of more surfaceflinger screenshot entries appear. I wonder if there is anything spying or this has some simple explanation.
Any help understanding why these entries keep appearing?
To quote from an answer for a question-related to android-surfaceflinger
SurfaceFlinger is an Android system service, responsible for compositing all the application and system surfaces into a single buffer that is finally to be displayed by the display controller.
So it's just allocating the frame buffer. And the developers who worked on that kept those logs. And as you mentioned there are logs with screenshots word in them which might be the reason for your worries.
So to keep it simple there is no need to worry about these logs.
I wonder if there is anything spying?
I checked my device and on an emulator, there are logs coming from my devices also so if it was caused due to some spying things then it would have appeared on your device only and not on my devices or emulators. If it was spying then it would be known by the world today. Everyone is concerned about privacy today. So you don't need to worry about those logs
For your reference: android-surfaceflinger
Google's Open Source Files Related To Surface Flinger
Here are some of the logs from my device
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