Official Android SDK for Stream Video

This is the official Android SDK for Stream Video, a service for building video calls, audio rooms, and live-streaming applications. This library includes both a low-level video SDK and a set of reusable UI components. Most users start with the Compose UI components and fall back to the lower-level API when they want to customize things.

🛥 What is Stream?

Stream allows developers to rapidly deploy scalable feeds, chat messaging and video with an industry leading 99.999% uptime SLA guarantee.

Stream provides UI components and state handling that make it easy to build video calling for your app. All calls run on Stream's network of edge servers around the world, ensuring optimal latency and reliability.

📕 Tutorials

With Stream's video components, you can use their SDK to build in-app video calling, audio rooms, audio calls, or live streaming. The best place to get started is with their tutorials:

If you're interested in customizing the UI components for the Video SDK, check out the UI Cookbook.

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👔 Sample Projects

You can find sample projects below that demonstrates use cases of Stream Video SDK for Android:

Dogfooding: Dogfooding demonstrates Stream Video SDK for Android with modern Android tech stacks, such as Compose, Hilt, and Coroutines.
Meeting Room Compose: A real-time meeting room app built with Jetpack Compose to demonstrate video communications.

👩‍💻 Free for Makers 👨‍💻

Stream is free for most side and hobby projects. To qualify, your project/company needs to have < 5 team members and < $10k in monthly revenue. Makers get $100 in monthly credit for video for free. For more details, check out the Maker Account.

💡Supported Features💡

Here are some of the features we support:

Developer experience: Great SDKs, docs, tutorials and support so you can build quickly
Edge network: Servers around the world ensure optimal latency and reliability
Chat: Stored chat, reactions, threads, typing indicators, URL previews etc
Security & Privacy: Based in USA and EU, Soc2 certified, GDPR compliant
Dynascale: Automatically switch resolutions, fps, bitrate, codecs and paginate video on large calls
Screensharing
Picture in picture support
Active speaker
Custom events
Geofencing
Notifications and ringing calls
Opus DTX & Red for reliable audio
Webhooks & SQS
Backstage mode
Flexible permissions system
Joining calls by ID, link or invite
Enabling and disabling audio and video when in calls
Flipping, Enabling and disabling camera in calls
Enabling and disabling speakerphone in calls
Push notification providers support
Call recording
Broadcasting to HLS

🗺️ Roadmap

Video roadmap and changelog is available here.

0.2.0 milestone

0.3.0 milestone

0.4.0 milestone

0.5.0 milestone

Enable SFU switching
H264 workaround on Samsung 23? (see https://github.com/livekit/client-sdk-android/blob/main/livekit-android-sdk/src/main/java/io/livekit/android/webrtc/SimulcastVideoEncoderFactoryWrapper.kt#L34 and
react-native-webrtc/react-native-webrtc#983 (comment))
Test coverage
Dynascale 2.0 (depending backend support)
Testing on more devices
Camera controls
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Dynascale 2.0

currently we support selecting which of the 3 layers you want to send: f, h and q. in addition we should support:
changing the resolution of the f track
changing the codec that's used from VP8 to h264 or vice versa
detecting when webrtc changes the resolution of the f track, and notifying the server about it (if needed)

💼 We are hiring!

We've recently closed a $38 million Series B funding round and we keep actively growing. Our APIs are used by more than a billion end-users, and you'll have a chance to make a huge impact on the product within a team of the strongest engineers all over the world. Check out our current openings and apply via Stream's website.

License

Copyright (c) 2014-2023 Stream.io Inc. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Stream License;
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   https://github.com/GetStream/stream-video-android/blob/main/LICENSE

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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