Zenbag cruises to victory with OpenTok at CruzHacks
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...
View ArticleNew web sample apps for OpenTok in React, Angular 5 and Vue
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...
View ArticleOpenTok version 2.13: What’s new and how you can use it
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...
View ArticlePutting our heads together for solutions for mental health
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,...
View ArticleBuild live video mobile apps with OpenTok React Native
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...
View ArticlePutting OpenTok React into practice at Reactathon
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...
View ArticleBuilding a text chat for Android and iOS 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...
View ArticleWith Microsoft Edge, OpenTok Is Now Supported on All Major Browsers
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...
View ArticleOpenTok version 2.14: What’s new and how you can use it
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,...
View ArticleEnhance Live Streaming and Recording Capabilities with HD
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...
View ArticleHacking Health Tech: TokBox at HackHLTH Las Vegas
Recently, my colleagues and I were in Las Vegas sponsoring HackHLTH at the inaugural HLTH conference on the future of healthcare The hackathon was geared towards building health tech solutions that...
View ArticleBuild an AR App with the Frame Metadata API
If you had to choose one memorable thing about the upcoming iOS 12 when it was unveiled at WWDC’18, it would probably be the inclusion of ARKit 2.0, Apple’s Augmented Reality toolkit for iOS. I bet you...
View ArticleEnter our AR and Live Video Summer Virtual Hackathon Now!
We’d like to welcome all WebRTC and TokBox API developers, wherever you are in the world, to our AR and Live Video Summer Virtual Hackathon! How would you like the chance of winning the $600 prize for...
View ArticleSpeed Up OpenTok Session Debugging with Inspector
Diving into data on OpenTok sessions can provide developers with the tools they need to understand bugs and make improvements quickly. That’s why we built Inspector – a tool to help developers...
View ArticleUpdate to Chrome Screen Sharing
As you may know, Google recently announced the deprecation of inline installation of Chrome extensions in an effort to improve transparency and security. For end-users, this means that the process for...
View ArticleHow To Get the Most out of the New Account Dashboard
In April, we announced updates to our pricing and packaging, which allows TokBox customers to have more flexibility with the ability to add-on features a la carte to their accounts. With this in mind,...
View ArticleIntegrating WebRTC with PSTN using OpenTok & Nexmo SIP
In this blog we look at how to connect OpenTok Live Video sessions with traditional PSTN phone calls. We will demonstrate how to connect an OpenTok session to PSTN with an audio stream that connects...
View ArticleOpenTok Server SDKs – What’s new?
In an effort to make our APIs more accessible and easy to use, we’ve spent some time improving all six of our server SDKs. The OpenTok Server SDKs provide a convenient way to to interact with the...
View ArticleOpenTok version 2.15: What’s new and how you can use it
Last week, we released OpenTok v2.15, 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. Audio Enhancements in Web and...
View ArticleInsights, now with GraphQL
A few months back, TokBox announced its Insights Dashboard, a view in the Account Portal for customers to better understand their applications’ video data. At the same time, we opened up an API (in...
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