Agora.io, a global leader in real-time communication solutions, announced the release of the Agora React Native SDK, an open source developer toolset for adding voice, video, and live broadcasting functionality to mobile apps using the React Native framework. The new SDK enables cross-platform building across iOS and Android platforms, making it easier and quicker to deploy and maintain embedded voice and video communication features within native mobile apps.
React Native is an open source project started by Facebook that lets developers build cross-platform mobile apps using JavaScript and React. With React Native, code is shared between platforms so developers can write across different mobile operating systems concurrently. Since its introduction in 2015, React Native has built a massive developer community and is used by companies like Facebook, Instagram, Bloomberg, and Skype.
“React Native is becoming a popular framework in the developer community because it offers a number of advantages like efficiency and consistency. Developers no longer have to create two versions of the same app from the ground up,” said Tony Zhao, founder and CEO at Agora.io. “With our React Native SDK, we wanted to give developers future-proof solutions with the same level of simplicity and reliability that they’d get from our platform-specific SDKs.”
As more developers adopt the React Native framework to build cross-platform apps, Agora’s React Native SDK enables them to integrate real-time voice chat, video conferencing, and interactive broadcasting into iOS and Android apps without recreating the code from scratch for each platform. The React Native SDK will also help developers shorten implementation time and minimize inconsistencies between platforms as they roll out new updates.
“Native mobile apps have become a core component of digital strategy for modern businesses, so it’s no longer enough to be on just one platform,” said Reggie Yativ, Chief Operating & Revenue Officer at Agora.io. “At the same time, we’re seeing more and more apps across a wide range of industries experiment with live video. Our React Native SDK was designed to give developers more options as they deploy these new interactive features that are proven to boost user engagement and monetization.”
The React Native SDK is the latest addition to Agora’s growing lineup of developer tools aimed at providing robust voice and video functionality that delivers truly native user experiences. Available on GitHub, the React Native SDK delivers the same benefits as Agora’s flagship Voice & Video SDK, which ensures extreme low latency, high quality video backed by a global network of 200 distributed data centers and a priority dynamic routing algorithm.
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