screenShare={true} not working

[thegitparticle]

Steps to reproduce

1. Execute a simple video call code
2. Video and audio work fine, both the cameras work
3. But when putting screenShare={true}, nothing happens.

Expected behaviour

Screen recording must replace or co-exist along with the video call.

Actual behaviour

Nothing happens. Regular video call just happens and no change despite setting the boolean to true. I'd like to if I need to do any additional setup to the screen sharing work inside video calls

Environment

• Node.js version: 14.15.1
• React Native version: 0.64.1
• React Native platform + platform version: iOS 14.5 and Android 10

react-native-twilio-video-webrtc

Version: npm version or "master" latest, installed just today.

[agam-colaburate]

+1

[slycoder]

I think this feature was removed quite a while ago as part of a refactor and the docs weren't properly updated to reflect that it was removed.

Anyone interested in re-adding this functionality?

[agam-colaburate]

@slycoder Thanks for the clarification.
Do we have any alternative for screen sharing/streaming in react native ?

[slycoder]

Not sure, the easiest approach might to just add this functionality back in. If you're up for it, we'd welcome the PR.

[italoj]

Hey @slycoder, do you have some documentation or something else that helps to implement the screen sharing again? Or do you have the PR that this functionality was removed?

[slycoder]

This functionality has never existed on android; I don't recall when we last had this working on iOS but it was a while ago. If someone wants to contribute a fresh implementation, it would be welcome. I don't imagine it would be too difficult but I don't have time at the moment to work on it.

[hamzaawais96]

Any update on it?

[hamzaawais96]

No worries. I have implemented "in-app screen capture" and screen broadcasting in iOS.

[vipulSoni458]

Hi hamzaawais96, can you please elaborate how you implemented screen capture. It would be really helpful

[vipulSoni458]

@hamzaawais96 Like I want to pass screenshare tracks from ios device to web. If you know anything which might help then it would really helpful

[hamzaawais96]

@vipulSoni458 I created a PR. You can take look into it.

[vipulSoni458]

@hamzaawais96 I have one doubt, after enable screen share will it replace the video tracks of localparticipant with Screen track of device ? In my use case I want to publish screen tracks and Video tracks seperately and render it in some view for other remote participant to see the screen share. If you have any idea regarding please tell me. Thanks for looking in this issue.

[hamzaawais96]

@vipulSoni458 nope. This will share video tracks of local particpant and screen tracks both. The other remote particpant will be able to see local particpant video and screen sharing as well.

[vipulSoni458]

@hamzaawais96 Okay thanks. Will try to implemenent this. Thanks again. :)