Talk-android: Screen / Desktop sharing, Android Talk can't see

[BloodyIron]

So I am testing a demo instance of nextCloud. Installed the Talk app on the demo server, and I have Talk-Android on my android 7.1 phone.

I open the demo instance in Firefox, go to talk, and start sharing something on my desktop. So far as I can tell in firefox, it's correctly sharing the desktop.

However, on my phone, all I see is a black screen. It seems that desktop / screen sharing to/from Android is not working.

[mario]

Well not a bug since we never supported this. But I'll work on this eventually :)

[BloodyIron]

Well, I wasn't sure if it was a bug or not. But I think others are going to want this kind of functionality, and I anticipate there are those that would get confused about it "not working". As there is no information saying "Screen/Desktop Sharing doesn't work with mobile users". A bit surprised it didn't work out of the box as I anticipated it would encode/send the video content in the same way as a camera source.

Is desktop/screen sharing Peer-to-Peer like the voice/camera content is? I couldn't find that explicitly stated either.

[mario]

I know, I know. It is p2p, but the issue is mostly from the mobile perspective where screen estate is limited and I need to decide how to show this.

For 1.2 I'm working on re-working the call UI, so maybe I can do this too.

[BloodyIron]

Is desk/screen sharing P2P even when using a desktop/browser client?

Perhaps pinch to zoom or something on mobile/tablet might be a good idea?

[mario]

It should be, yes :)

[BloodyIron]

@mario Excellent! Perhaps mentioning that in the documentation somewhere might be a good idea? (not sure who writes that)

[johnfelipe]

screensharing for android is featured?
if not when release a version with that feature?

[mario]

@johnfelipe as soon as I get the time or someone contributes this :)

[mario]

@danxuliu and @nickvergessen - would any of you be so kind to tell me what's the signaling difference when receiving a screen, apart from roomType being "screen"? Am I supposed to send different messages etc?

[nickvergessen]

That is something @Ivansss or @fancycode should be able to explain

[Ivansss]

@mario There is no difference apart from setting roomType="screen" in the signaling messages.

[mario]

Basic implementation was done for 3.2.