Question

Do mobile browsers support screen sharing?

Applies To

• iOS mobile browser
• Android mobile browser
• Windows mobile browser 

Answer

No, screen sharing is not supported on mobile browsers. Screen sharing requires the MediaDevices API: getDisplayMedia().

Please see link below for getDisplayMedia() supported platforms.

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_mediadevices_getdisplaymedia

Additional Information

There are currently no plans for screen sharing to be supported by mobile browsers.

Screen sharing on mobile is only possible with Native SDKs.
 
Please reference to links below.
 
https://github.com/opentok/opentok-ios-sdk-samples-swift/tree/main/Screen-Sharing
 
https://github.com/opentok/opentok-android-sdk-samples/tree/main/Screen-Sharing-Java
 
https://github.com/opentok/opentok-windows-sdk-samples/tree/main/ScreenSharing