NatShare - Free Sharing API

Working fine on iPhoneX and iPhone 8. Tried on my iPad Air 2 and it crashes after recording 5 seconds of video. Seems like it could be a memory issue.

 

Hi!

It works only above iPhone 8? What about iPhone 5 and so on?

 

Try deleting and reimporting both NatCorder and NatShare from your project. We changed how file paths are handled on iOS in both NatCorder and NatShare, so you'll need both packages to be up to date.

 

NatCorder works on older devices (I've had a developer confirm that it works on the iPhone 4S). You just have to make sure that your recording framerate and resolution is manageable by the device. 30FPS is always a safe bet.

 

Hi Lanre!

We updated the NatCorder from 1.2f1 to 1.2f2 and now its working!
NatShare was already up to date to 1.0f2

Thanks so much for you support!

 

Hi there!

Recording on my iPhone 5C crash all the time. Its working fine on iPhone 6s.
This is the message XCode get:
Message from debugger: Terminated due to memory issue

Is there any way to fix this?
In attachment is the log file.

Regards,

Fabio

 

Hi Fabio. Please post on the NatCorder forum thread since this is a NatCorder issue, or email me directly since we have discussed over email. Older devices that do not support Metal and that have limited RAM size struggle with recording, especially when running other services like Vuforia that consume a lot of GPU frame time. What I recommend as a workaround is reducing the resolution of your recording.

 

Thank you Lanre! I sent you an email.

 

Hello,

I have bought the NatCorder and added NatShare to it.
I would like to ask for the possibility to add Description Text when sharing on social media. How is that possible?

Thank you

 

Hello, does Save to camera roll save images to android gallery?

 

You can do so using the second parameter to the Share function.

 

Yes, on Android it saves to the gallery.

 

Hi I am using NatShare and find its really good. I am just wondering if NatShare causes a requirement for access to the users contacts and to be able to make phone calls on Android? As people find this permission quite invasive. Is that permission from NatShare or should i be looking somewhere else? If it is from NatShare, can that requirement be removed?

 

NatShare doesn't declare these permissions; they are unrelated to its functionality.

 

Hi! thanks for making the awesome assets, both NatShare and NatCorder, I'm using them in my mobile game and they work great!

I have a quick question: I don't want to keep around videos that players have recorded on disk, so after they share (or decide not to share) them, I'd like to delete them. However I can't seem to find any callback or anything for when the share action has completed, to know it's safe to delete the file. How do you recommend handling this without having to expose this as a player-facing decision?

 

This sounds like a good feature request. I have created an issue on GitHub.

 

Thanks! I look forward to an update with the new feature. Until then I'll find a work-around for my use case.

 

Hi, can anybody help me. I have NatCoder and NatShear imported from Asset store and added script

Code (CSharp):

1. void OnReplay (string path) {
2.             NatShare.SaveToCameraRoll(path);
3.  
4.             Debug.Log("Saved recording to: "+path);
5.             // Playback the video
6.             #if UNITY_IOS
7.             Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie("file://" + path);
8.             #elif UNITY_ANDROID
9.             Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie(path);
10.             #endif
11.         }

But unity is writing
Assets/NatCorder/Examples/ReplayCam/ReplayCam.cs(66,13): error CS0103: The name `NatShare' does not exist in the current context

Thanks

 

You probably need to add "using NatShareU" at the top of your script.

 

Thanks, I was looking for NatShare.. not for NatShareU

 

Hi, I'm on NatShare 1.0f3, trying to share a video, but the share sheet never shows. This was working until very recently. I'm getting this output:

Code (CSharp):

1. 2018-07-03 01:02:54.116963-0500 myApp[34078:29208519] NatCorder: Prepared video track at resolution 374x374@30Hz with average bitrate 703125 and keyframe interval 3s
2. 2018-07-03 01:02:54.120009-0500 myApp[34078:29208519] NatCorder: Prepared audio track for 2 channels with 1024@24000Hz samples
3. 2018-07-03 01:03:04.114867-0500 myApp[34078:29208846] NatCorder: Encoder detected EOS marker
4. 2018-07-03 01:03:04.114939-0500 myApp[34078:29208846] NatCorder: Encoder finishing
5. 2018-07-03 01:03:10.698381-0500 myApp[34078:29208519] [ShareSheet] ERROR: <UIActivityViewController: 0x12a51f600> timed out waiting to establish a connection to the ShareUI view service extension.

Any ideas?

 

Weird. Just restarted my phone and everything's back to normal.

 

HI,

I enjoy very much using your plugin with NatCorder, thanks for the great work. I however have some issues and would need your help.
- NatShare.Share(Texutre 2D) works great, but I'd like an option to set the file name (at the moment is share.png)
- NatShare.SaveToCameraRoll has issues on Android - videos are saved to a folder with app name and pictures are saved to a folder named "Pictures". I'd like to save both in the folder named after the app.
Both photos and videos are also saved with the wrong creation date (18. jan 1970) and I'm not able to change that with File.SetCreationTime.

Have a nice one

EDIT.
I see the issue on github now, keeping fingers crossed that this becomes possible soon. The issue with the date is however still a big problem.

 

The `share.png` file is used as a temporary staging file to use to share the image, since we can't share raw pixel data. It is not meant to be consumed outside the scope of a call to Share(Texture2D).

We are aware of this. There's a GitHub issue for this.

I've opened a new issue for this on GitHub.

 

Understood. The name can be seen for example when sent per mail.

Great. I submitted a pull request for the issue.

 

Merged! Thank you.

 

hi, any video tutorial on how to use this?

 

There isn't any video tutorial; the API is really simple. This article might be helpful.

 

ScreenShotShare is not a NatShare symbol. Contact the developer of the plugin you are using. All NatShare symbols begin with "NS".

 

Is there any way to save the video (using NATCorder) to the actual android camera folder on an Android i.e. under DCIM folder?
When I save a video it saves to a folder named "files" under the app installation inside /Internal storage/Android/Data/com.app.name. This causes problems when I try to view with android gallery. If I click the thumbnail I just get a grey box. If I try launching it it crashes gallery app. IF I access through another videos app I can access the video.
Not sure if this is a bug or permissions issue?

 

This is an open issue.

This is expected behaviour. NatCorder saves videos to the app's private documents directory. You can save the videos to the camera roll using NatShare.

 

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Could you provide sample code how to save the newly created to camera roll using Natshare?

 

I'm not sure I understand your question. Newly created what? You can use the SaveToCameraRoll function to save media to the camera roll.

 

On iOS does not work share in Instagram, how can I fix it?

 

The MP4 Video
When I use natshare(SaveToCameraRoll) the only place I see the video saved is in the files folder within application folder path

This PC\Samsung Galaxy S7\Phone\Android\data\com.Aom.PitMouse\files

 

Thanks for the great work on this plugin.

I've noticed there are some binaries in the github repo as well, is this something you're able to open source as well?

 

Check out this issue. We will be pushing a NatShare update that implements this fix today or tomorrow.

 

This issue will make sure that the video is copied, instead of symlinked in the gallery folder.

 

The binaries are built from the native sources, in the iOS and Android folders at the root of the repository; it's all open source.

 

when I use natshare API in Natcorder

void OnReplay (string path) {
Debug.Log("Saved recording to: "+path);
// Playback the video
#if UNITY_IOS
Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie("file://" + path);
#elif UNITY_ANDROID
NatShareU.NatShare.SaveToCameraRoll(path);
Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie(path);
#endif
}

I see the video is saved in the app folder, I want it to save in Gallery Folder

 

Ah of course. My apologies!

 

We will fix this in the next release.

 

@NatCam thank you very much, I Wish I can save video with other name instead of recording_ prefix

 

This is not possible. Instead, you can rename the video file using the `System.IO.File` functions.

 

I'm trying to share a MP4 created with NatCorder to Twitter & Instagram, however neither Twitter or Instagram appear in the sharing window. Both Twitter and Instagram are installed on the device. Any idea how to fix?

 

Thanks

 

Is this update still in development, I thought I saw a post that statin release this weeK? TY

 

We have implemented the fix. We will update the package on the Asset Store soon.

 

I have been a bit busy, so my progress on this was delayed. The fix has been implemented; I just have to run some tests then submit the package to Unity for review.