mesibo Voice & Video Conferencing and Streaming API for Android, iOS & Javascript on mesibo documentation

Create a Conference Room

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In this section, we will learn about a conference room, its permissions, and settings. Then, we will explain how to create a conference room with required permissions & settings and add participants using Mesibo real-time and Backend APIs.

Before proceeding further:

Ensure that you are familiar with mesibo APIs and read throgh Get Started Guide. Also, you are familar with mesibo Group Management APIs.

Download Conferencing App Source code. Follow along as you go through this document.

Integrate Conferencing APIs

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Prerequisites

Before we dive into the various concepts and APIs for conferencing & streaming, you need to go through the following to familiarize yourself with mesibo APIs.

Get Started Guide
Familiar with Real-time Group Management and Group Messaging APIs.
Basic familiarity with Mesibo Call APIs
It is also recommended that you refer to the source code of mesibo open-source Conferencing App to quickly learn how each API is used.

Key Terms

In this document, we will use the following terms

Conference Admin and Moderation | Mesibo Video Conferencing SDK

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In this section, we will learn about conference room administration. The group owners and admins can perform various admin tasks using Admin API, depending on the admin permissions. For example,

mute or unmute participants
ask participants to publish voice and video streams on demand
ask participants to stop publishing without leaving the room
ask participants to view/subscribe to a particular publisher
ask participants to leave the room
ask participants to view streams in full screen
make other participants admin
etc.

To administer or moderate a conference room, one needs to be an owner or an admin of the room. Refer to the Real-time Group Management APIs to learn about how to add admins to the group.

Open-Source Video Conferencing App

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To make it easier for you, we have created a fully-featured open-source Zoom-like conferencing app for web and mobile.

Standard, HD, FHD, UHD, and 4K resolution
Multiple Camera, Multi-angle Streaming
Multiple Screen Sharing
Talk Detection
Collaborative Whiteboard
Group Voice and Video Call
One-to-One & Group Chat

Try the Demo

Download Source Code

You can download the entire source code from our GitHub repository, customize and rebrand it without any restrictions. Using mesibo SDKs and open source code, it will only take a few hours for you to build a fully-featured conferencing app.

Mesibo Video Conferencing API - Listeners

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The Mesibo Conferencing API provides the following listeners:

GroupCallListener, MesiboCall.GroupCallListener provides listeners that inform you about participants publishing and subscribing in the conference.
GroupCallInProgressListener, MesiboCall.GroupCallInProgressListener allows listeners to handle the stream that you are receiving from a participant such as, mute, hang up, talk detection, etc.
MesiboGroupCallAdminListener, MesiboCall.GroupCallAdminListener provides listeners that inform you about the admin requests in the conference. For example, if the participant was muted by the admin, or the admin is requesting participant to publish, or to go full screen, etc.

MesiboGroupCall Class Reference

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MesiboCall.MesiboGroupCall controls various aspects of a group call, like joining and leaving the conference call, playing in-call sound, etc. The following is a list of methods available in the MesiboGroupCall API. The first step in starting a group call is to create a MesiboGroupCall object.

Refer to Conferencing API Documentation to learn more.

Creating an instance of MesiboGroupCall

You can get a group call instance using MesiboCall.groupCall().

Before you make a group call, ensure the following :

MesiboParticipant Class Reference

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The following is a list of methods available in the MesiboParticipant class.

You MUST not directly create an instance of MesiboParticipant. You will get a new MesiboParticipant object:

When you create a publisher using GroupCall.createPublisher()
Or through listeners, MesiboGroupcall_OnPublisher and MesiboGroupcall_OnSubscriber

Refer to Conferencing API Documentation to learn more.

Call Functions

The following methods handle the call to a participant

call

The call() method takes the following parameters:

audio, true if you would like to receive the audio stream, false otherwise
video, true if you would like to receive the video stream, false otherwise
groupCallInProgressListener, An instance of GroupCallInProgressListener

For example, in Android, if you would like to have both audio and video while viewing a publisher, make a call as follows