Amazon Chime SDK for Android

Note: If building with the SDK source code, the development branch contains bleeding-edge changes that may not build with the publically available Chime media library or may not be as stable as public releases.

Build video calling, audio calling, and screen sharing applications powered by Amazon Chime.

The Amazon Chime SDK for Android makes it easy to add collaborative audio calling, video calling, and screen share viewing features to Android applications by using the same infrastructure services that power meetings on the Amazon Chime service.

This Amazon Chime SDK for Android works by connecting to meeting session resources that you have created in your AWS account. The SDK has everything you need to build custom calling and collaboration experiences in your Android application, including methods to: configure meeting sessions, list and select audio devices, switch video devices, start and stop screen share viewing, receive callbacks when media events occur such as volume changes, and manage meeting features such as audio mute and video tile bindings.

To get started, see the following resources:

• Amazon Chime
• Amazon Chime Developer Guide
• Amazon Chime SDK API Reference
• SDK Documentation

And review the following guides:

• Getting Started

Setup

To include the SDK binaries in your own project, follow these steps.

For the purpose of setup, your project's root folder will be referred to as root

1. Download binaries

Download the following zips:

• amazon-chime-sdk-0.7.1.tar.gz
• amazon-chime-sdk-media-0.6.1.tar.gz

Unzip them and copy the aar files to root/app/libs

2. Update gradle files

Update build.gradle in root by adding the following under repositories in allprojects:

allprojects {
   repositories {
      jcenter()
      flatDir {
        dirs 'libs'
      }
   }
}

Update build.gradle in root/app and add the following under dependencies:

implementation(name: 'amazon-chime-sdk', ext: 'aar')
implementation(name: 'amazon-chime-sdk-media', ext: 'aar')

Update build.gradle in root/app under compileOptions:

compileOptions {
    sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
}

Running the demo app

To run the demo application, follow these steps.

NOTE: Please make sure that you are running on ARM supported devices (real devices) or simulator with arm supported. We do not support x86 currently, so simulators with x86 will not work.

1. Deploy serverless demo

Deploy the serverless demo from amazon-chime-sdk-js

2. Download binary

Download the following zip:

• amazon-chime-sdk-media-0.6.1.tar.gz

Unzip and copy the aar files to amazon-chime-sdk-android/amazon-chime-sdk/libs

3. Update demo app

Update test_url in strings.xml at the path amazon-chime-sdk-android/app/src/main/res/values with the URL of the serverless demo deployed in Step 1

Reporting a suspected vulnerability

If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify AWS/Amazon Security via our vulnerability reporting page. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

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