Google Meet Screen Sharing

[Neal Kaiser]

Hello, I have an Electron app that opens a Google Meet. It seems to work well, however, Screen Sharing doesn't work.  I've searched and this has come up before and I don't think there is a way to make it work. Posting here in case someone has found a way around this.

Thanks.

[anthon...@gmail.com]

I believe Google Meet uses a special integration with Chrome/Chromium for screen sharing.

I do not think Electron will have access to it, as it is based on a much much more cutdown version of Chromium. So I do not think it will work.

If you need screen sharing you will need to launch it in a full chrome/chromium browser (one built with enable_hangout_services_extension).

I'm not sure of how much of Chromium is changed in Electron. It may be possible, though it would take a lot of work to maintain compatibility as an individual considering how much code there is and how often it changes.

I am not sure why Google Meet doesn't just use the standard WebRTC API. It may be simply because of historical reasons / code inheritance from Google Hangouts.