Parse has OpenTok iOS SDK’s back(end), so you don’t have to
Developing an iOS App itself is a huge undertaking: you want your product to be beautiful, interactive, and functional. That’s why Parse makes so much sense, it helps you avoid writing a backend server...
View ArticleWhat the CU-RTC-Web vs. WebRTC debate means for developers
About six months ago, Microsoft released an alternative proposal to the W3C WebRTC 1.0 Working Draft[2], dubbed CU-RTC-Web[1]. Like all W3C groups, the WebRTC Working Group enlists membership from a...
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What I learned on my cross platform development panel
Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of being a part of the Mobile + Web developer conference held at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco. I spoke on a panel about where development was headed in a world...
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LiveNinja: Video chat face-to-face with experts
There is a new breed of Ninjas taking over. Instead of covert agents wielding nunchucks and wearing ninja-yoroi, you’ll find gentler individuals donned in yoga pants, weaponed with guitars and Adobe...
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OpenTok on WebRTC now supports Firefox!
On February 4th Mozilla and Google announced that their respective browsers could now talk to each other via WebRTC. This is another big milestone in WebRTC’s path towards becoming available in all...
View ArticleNew changes for WebRTC in Chrome 26
A new version of Chrome is out, and with it changes in the WebRTC stack. We dug through the commit logs for Chrome 26, and found the following list of WebRTC bug fixes, enhancements, and updates that...
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Mantis: Next-generation Cloud Technology for WebRTC
Today we’re proud to announce our latest WebRTC innovation: Mantis, a cloud-scaling infrastructure for our OpenTok on WebRTC platform. This is another big step forward for the TokBox team as we...
View ArticleMantis Checklist – How to get started with Mantis
We just launched Mantis yesterday, and saw a rush of activity as partners hopped onto the WebRTC cloud. The new things people will be able to build – a real-time, online dungeons and dragons web app,...
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Introducing Cloud Raptor SDK – Robust apps made easy
Today, the OpenTok platform adds the Cloud Raptor SDK into the fold. Partners’ application servers can use the Cloud Raptor SDK to listen to the events and messages that pass through an OpenTok...
View ArticleQuality of Experience and Traffic Shaping – the next step with Mantis
Today, we are happy to announce yet another significant milestone in the technical evolution of the OpenTok platform – dynamic traffic shaping for audio and video through our Mantis infrastructure. We...
View ArticleWebRTC: Your thoughts requested
Hello TokBox Community, We have a small favor to ask of you. We’ve pulled together a brief survey about WebRTC that aims to measure the current level of awareness, interest, and activity around the...
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Layout Container – Auto resizing video elements in a container
When building OpenTok apps, there might be cases where you would like the videos inside a container to automagically resize to take up the largest resolution possible within the boundaries of their...
View ArticleWhat was included in Chrome 29 on Desktop and Android release
Lots. The capabilities of WebRTC in the Google Chrome browser continue to grow, and some pretty major bugs are squashed. The biggest news for us at TokBox is that Chrome for Android now supports WebRTC...
View ArticleGetting Started with OpenTok: From 0 to simple group video chat
TokBox is the company that provides the video streaming API called OpenTok. This tutorial will be a walk through to creating a very simple group video chat application. There are two flavors to the...
View ArticleGetting Started with OpenTok: Creating sessions and Tokens
If you have read our Getting Started With OpenTok: From 0 to group video chat, you will see why we need to create sessions and their corresponding tokens. Since creating sessions and generating its...
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Proof: the rise and rise of WebRTC
WebRTC is clearly a hot topic. But in an effort to discover just how hot we conducted what we think is one of the largest global surveys of its kind. Today, we are pleased to share the results with all...
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OpenTok iOS SDK 2.1.5 is released
Today we are releasing the OpenTok iOS SDK v2.1.5 that includes: Our new Signaling API Dynamic traffic shaping for streams flowing over the OpenTok platform Fixes on iOS 7 known issues Earlier we...
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Adding Signaling to OpenTok – Enabling Application-Level Messaging
Today, we’re really pleased to be introducing application-level signaling for our WebRTC implementation of OpenTok across both Web and iOS platforms. Over the last two years, OpenTok has continued to...
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iOS 7 known issues resolved in OpenTok iOS SDKs
Today we are releasing the OpenTok iOS SDK v1.4.3 (our Flash-plugin compatible SDK), which fixes the issues related to iOS 7. Download it here. Earlier we released OpenTok iOS SDK v2.1.5 (our WebRTC...
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PennApps fall 2013 TokBox winners: Will Crichton, Dillon Lareau, Patrick Xia,...
A few weeks ago on September 6, 2013, a thousand students congregated at UPenn from all over the world, laptops out and ready to code. It was one of the largest student run hackathon in history. Out of...
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