Toggle Video and Audio in Android App

How to implement?
1

Hi,
This is a silly question but I could not find the answer in the docs. :frowning:

So, I have a android app (clone of openvidu’s GitHub android app) which I have successfully connected to my own server. I wanted to toggle audio and video and recv chat messages in the android app, but I could not find the answer in the docs.

How do we toggle video audio and recv chat in an Android app?
Thanks

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Android sample app is a prototype, is not a proper SDK. For that reason, is not supported neither documented.

You will have to take a look to the source code and find yourself.

Maybe some community member can help you.

Regards

3

Hello Arush,

To receive chat messages is actually quite easy, you need to add the code to intercept the message in the handleServerEvent function here:

https://github.com/OpenVidu/openvidu-tutorials/blob/a569a8598495a475c68ff0452a82ee3a9adb7775/openvidu-android/app/src/main/java/io/openvidu/openvidu_android/websocket/CustomWebSocket.java#L215

So basically you need to add another switch case:

case JsonConstants.SEND_MESSAGE:
     Log.e(TAG, "Send Message " + json.toString());
break;

This constant was declared in JsonConstants.java file like this:

public static final String SEND_MESSAGE = "sendMessage";

You will be able to parse the JSON payload which has this format:

{
  "method": "sendMessage",
  "params": {
    "data": "test chat",
    "type": "signal:chat",
    "from": "con_FVGC0ckCzr"
  },
  "jsonrpc": "2.0"
}

For your other issue with disabling/enabling audio/video I can only suggest you to remove/add the audio/video tracks from/to the media stream. I can’t help you with code as mobile apps development is not my expertise.

Regards,
Mihail

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Never mind, I have decided to use ionic :slight_smile: