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+# Hifi-Screenshare
+
+The Screenshare app will allow easy desktop sharing by being launced from within the highfidelity interface.
+
+# Setup
+Create the following environment variable the hifi-screenshare app will use to get the proper connection info:
+hifiScreenshareURL="<URL for authentication>"
+
+# Screenshare API
+In order to launch the hifi-screenshare app from within interface, you will call the following:
+Screenshare.startScreenshare(displayName, userName, token, sessionID, apiKey);
+The app won't run without the correct info.
+
+# Files included
+packager.js : 
+Calling npm run packager will use this file to create the actual electron hifi-screenshare executable
+
+src/main.js :
+The main process file to configure the electron app
+
+srce/app.js :
+The render file to dispaly the screenshare UI
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