Allow developers to prompt the platform-native share modal

Feature Requests Engine Features
#1

As a Roblox developer, it is currently impossible to prompt users with their platform share modals. This makes it very difficult for users to share content from our game without leaving to another app first.

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because our players would be able to open a screen to share content from our game with their friends or online. Our game, Clip It, allows users to record and edit 3D clips and publish them to a TikTok-style for-you feed. We want to allow users to share clips and other content from the game without having to leave.

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#2

This is how we currently share content:

Find a dank clip in Clip It and hit the “Share” button at the bottom right.

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It shows you this link (deeplink shortened link) that the user must select in it’s entirety to copy/paste. This is another paint point - users are constantly not selecting the entire clip link, and it’s just cumbersome to do.

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That link is then pasted into the app of choice by the user. This is an incredibly laborious process for something that should just take 3 quick taps.

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#3

What would the input for the share modal be?

If you’re looking to capture a screenshot and share that with the native share prompt, you may want to tweak with the new Capture API.

Based on the example from ScriptOn, are you looking for an API to prompt the share window with a given string (deeplink + message)?

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#4

I don’t know what the design of this API would look like, but our use case is share links. So it would require being able to share strings.

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