Enhance Live Streaming and Recording Capabilities with HD

May 23, 2018 | By Hannah Bastian | Archiving, Broadcast, Developer, The OpenTok Platform

720p HD Recording and live streaming capabilities

Today, we’re excited to bring support for 720p HD to our Recording and Live Streaming features. With this release, our APIs will provide developers an option to record OpenTok and live stream OpenTok sessions in high definition, and as a result create more engaging live video experiences.

Live video sessions on OpenTok already support 720p, but until today, customers could only record and live stream at 480p. With a growing number of education, webinar and media and entertainment customers, demand to support HD resolution for recording and live streaming has been gaining momentum and we are pleased to finally make this available for our customers.

OpenTok version 2.14: What’s new and how you can use it

May 10, 2018 | By Adam Ullman | Developer, New Products and Features, The OpenTok Platform

OpenTok v2.14 client SDK v2.14 what's new

Last week, we released OpenTok v2.14, the latest version of our Client SDKs. We wanted to update you on some of the great new features included and how you can use them.

With the Frame Metadata API, cycleVideo and facingMode APIs and other features, there is plenty to make it even easier for you to build great live video apps on OpenTok.

With Microsoft Edge, OpenTok Is Now Supported on All Major Browsers

April 30, 2018 | By Donal Toomey | Developer, Industry News, OpenTok, Windows

Late last week, Microsoft released the April Update for Windows 10. This update contains the latest version of the Edge browser, Edge 17. We are happy to announce beta support for the Edge browser across our live video platform. All the great features of the OpenTok platform are now available in beta with Microsoft Edge!

We have been tracking the progress of Edge over the last 12 months, testing the Windows Insider builds, and providing feedback to Microsoft. We were delighted when Microsoft introduced support for the WebRTC 1.0 APIs in the 2017 Spring release and we applaud them for the improvements they have made since then.

Building a text chat for Android and iOS with OpenTok React Native

March 29, 2018 | By Manik Sachdeva | Android SDK, Code Sample, Developer, iOS SDK, React Native

Build a text chat app for iOS and Android with OpenTok React Native

As you may know, we recently announced an OpenTok Labs solution for adding live video and messaging to your React Native application. In this post, we’d like to take a deeper look at how to use the OpenTok Signaling API to build a text chat application with React Native.

Putting OpenTok React into practice at Reactathon

March 27, 2018 | By Manik Sachdeva | Developer, Events, React

This past week, my colleague Aaron and I had the opportunity to attend the Reactathon Advanced Conference. The conference featured some great talks, many of which included React Native, GraphQL, and WebAssembly. In addition to the conference, Reactathon also hosted a hackathon, which TokBox supported by sponsoring. It was great seeing the community that loves this great framework come together and share their knowledge.

Build live video mobile apps with OpenTok React Native

March 22, 2018 | By Manik Sachdeva | Android SDK, Code Sample, Developer, iOS SDK, React Native

OpenTok React Native for live video mobile apps

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on OpenTok React Native. As the name suggests, it’s a React Native library for OpenTok. As I work with developers at hackathons and other events, I’ve had lots of questions about React Native and OpenTok. So on April 11th I’ll be hosting a webinar where I’ll build iOS and Android applications with live video using OpenTok and React Native.

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Putting Our Heads Together for Solutions for Mental Health

February 15, 2018 | By Freya Currie | Developer, Events, Healthcare

Co-authored by Manik Sachdeva, TokBox Developer Evangelist.

When we talk about health, it’s often physical health which is at the forefront of our plans. However, mental health is equally important, but often takes a back seat. It’s perhaps not surprising: mental health is not well understood by the general public. Unfortunately it can come with a big dose of stigma attached as a result.

To top it off, it can be difficult to find a professional to help overcome challenges. Even when you do have access to a qualified clinician, the cost can be prohibitive.

OpenTok version 2.13: What’s new and how you can use it

February 7, 2018 | By Adam Ullman | Developer, New Products and Features, The OpenTok Platform

We recently released the latest version of our Client SDKs, v2.13.0 and I wanted to share some of the great new features that have gone out with this release.

Custom Media Streaming

With v2.13.0 of opentok.js we have added the ability to pass a custom audioSource and videoSource when you create a Publisher. The custom audio and video source are MediaStreamTrack objects. This enables quite a few different use cases that our customers have been asking for.

New web sample apps for OpenTok in React, Angular 5 and Vue

February 6, 2018 | By Adam Ullman | Code Sample, Developer

react, angular 5, vue sample apps for webrtc

We get a lot of requests from our customers for examples of how to use OpenTok in their framework of choice. I’m here to tell you today that we are answering your pleas in 3 of the most popular Web frameworks out there: React, Angular 5 and Vue.js.

You can find the new sample apps in our Web Samples Github Repository.

Zenbag cruises to victory with OpenTok at CruzHacks

February 1, 2018 | By Manik Sachdeva | Developer, Events, The OpenTok Platform

One of my favorite parts of being a developer evangelist is getting to meet fellow developers and share their journey to building awesome products. And there’s nowhere better to meet developers than a hackathon!

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend CruzHacks at my alma mater, the University of California Santa Cruz. It was great to be in a position where I could support an amazing event through sponsorship, mentoring, and judging.