Digium has launched open source SDKs that aim to make it easier for developers to add voice and video calling, instant messaging, and push notifications to their Android and iOS apps.
The underlying technology for most of these features is WebRTC. Digium has incorporated functionality into its cloud-based Respoke platform, which was initially developed to add communications features to Web applications.
“We have had a lot of requests to extend the platform to mobile, which makes sense since almost everything is mobile-first these days,” said Steven Sokol, product lead for Respoke.
Until now, building in-app communications features on native mobile platforms has required expertise in call signaling, codecs, encryption and packetization, according to Digium. With the introduction of the mobile SDK, developers can leave the complicated plumbing to the platform and drastically shorten development times, it said.
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