Screen Share

Android provides support for sharing the entire screen of the device to the room. Please note that for a peer to share their screen, their role must have screenshare enabled in the dashboard. Also select the appropriate resolution that you desire the screenshare track should be of.

Adding activity to AndroidManifest.xml

Add HmsScreenshareActivity to manifest located at android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml.

 
<activity
  android:name="com.reactnativehmssdk.HmsScreenshareActivity"
  android:label="@string/app_name" />

How to start screenshare from the app

To start screen share, app needs to call the startScreenshare method of HMSSDK. Following is the snippet on how to use this:

 
// hms instance acquired from build method
hmsInstance?.startScreenshare();

How to stop screenshare from the app

To start screen share, application needs to call the stopScreenshare method of HMSSDK. Following is the snippet on how to use this:

 
// hms instance acquired from build method
await hmsInstance?.stopScreenshare();

How to get Screen Share Status

Application needs to call the isScreenShared method of HMSSDK. This method returns a Boolean which will be true inscase ScreenShare is currently active and being used, and False for inactive state.

 
// hms instance acquired from build method
hmsInstance?.isScreenShared()