Share plugin is reaaally slow

Hi everyone,

I use C3's official share plugin in a signed Android APK. I can share an URL via Whatsapp as supposed, but the plugin takes reaaalllllllyyyyy long to load. Approximately 30 seconds from pushing a button in the game to opening the native share dialog.

Is there a way to fix this?

Your device might the slow one here in my case after I pressed the share button it loads automatically.

The share is handled by the browser/OS, so I don't think it has anything to do with Construct. Maybe if you share a really large file it has to copy it to a temporary file first, which could delay it. Or if you have a large number of apps that can share, it could take a while to load them in to the list.

Thanks for the answer, Ashley.

I did some testing and figured out that it has something to do with the APK size. For a small test APK, it works really quick as supposed. For a big project (~ 50 MB), it's slow somehow. Disabling 'Minify script' helped a bit, too.

Interesting fact: The same problem and solution occurs for the official Google Play plugin, too.

For the moment, I'm fine with this, as I won't publish the full sized APK anyway. I might provide a bug report once I have time.

Ashley

I just ran into another strange issue: I use C3, stable version r148. For the share plugin, the condition 'Is sharing files supported' and the action 'Add file' do not exist. They simply are not listed in the event sheet editor.

I've searched everywhere and can't find it... am I blind?!

According to the documentation, these features should exist:

https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/share

All new features are only added for the C3 runtime. If you're still using the C2 runtime you won't see any new features until you switch the project to the C3 runtime.