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Video Android Platform Overview

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Twilio's Programmable Video Android SDK lets you add real time voice and video to your native Android applications.

Prerequisites

Android Studio 2.0 or higher
Support for Android API level 21 or higher
Support for Java 8

Programmable Video Live Demo

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Run the QuickStart app

To get started with Twilio Video, you should download and run the QuickStart application.

The QuickStart repository contains additional examples. These examples demonstrate the usage of new features and also help you build more complex applications.

To add Video to your app, follow the Quickstart guide.

Add the SDK

The Android Video SDK is distributed through Maven Central.

To install the Android Video SDK, ensure the following configuration is in your build.gradle file:

Gradle

1allprojects {
2    repositories {
3        mavenCentral()
4    }
5}
6
7// The Video library resides on Maven Central
8implementation 'com.twilio:video-android:$version'
9
10android {
11    compileOptions {
12        sourceCompatibility 1.8
13        targetCompatibility 1.8
14    }
15}

Proguard

Add the following lines to your proguard-project.txt file.

1-keep class tvi.webrtc.** { *; }
2-keep class com.twilio.video.** { *; }
3-keepattributes InnerClasses

Supported Devices

The Android SDK supports Android API level 21 and higher. It is built for armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86, and x86_64 architectures.