How to Share Your Smartphone Screen in Google Meet

Google Meet, earlier known as the Hangouts meet, is one of the products of Google, which is used to do meetings virtually over the internet. The main purpose of this app is just for meetings. You may have heard about the Zoom app. This is one of the best alternatives to Zoom video conferencing system. This year, during March 2020, Google Meet started its support with browser and mobile devices and extending features such as share smartphone screen and grid view.

Google Meet is one of the best video conferencing app that gives you everything that you need to have to host a video meeting. However, some of the features of this application are not as much as simple or straight forward as they seem. Sharing your smartphone’s screen is one of them. So, let’s see today how we can share the screen of our smartphone in the Google meet application.

How to Share Smartphone Screen in Google Meet?

Sharing your smartphone’s screen in Google Meet is not that a big obstacle. It may not be as simple as its other feature, but it can be done by doing some tweaks. So, let’s check all the steps by which it can be done.

Install Google Meet

The Google Meet app can also be used through its web version, which is only of browsers. So, why to download the application. There are so many features in Google Meet that we can not use in its browser version. They are simply incompatible. Screen Sharing also comes in that.

So, for using the  Google Meet’s app to its full extent. You have to download its app, and that can easily be available in the play store and App store. After installing the Google Meet app, you must sign in on that app through your Google account. Because without it, you can not join a Google Meet call.

Join a Video Call

You can join or start a video call in the meet app in several ways. When organizing an event through Google Calendar, there is an option for automatically generating a Meet room. It will give access to your invites to click or join. Google is also coming out with a feature in some time for starting or joining a meet call through the Gmail app Desktop version also. Basically, you just need the meeting link to join.

Moreover, if your meet is prescheduled or not, you can easily start or join your calls through the main screen of the Google Meet app. If your Google meet call is scheduled through the calendar invite on Gmail, then you can easily find it in the option where the scheduled call is listed. There is also another calling option know as spur-of-the-moment call. It can also be done through the main screen as well.