Real-Time Video Communication with EnableX and Push Notifications for Android, iOS, and Web

Push notification service for Android, iOS & web This project will enable you to experience the power of real-time video communication enhanced with push notifications. This sample app illustrates the potential of EnableX communication alongside push notification services for Android, iOS, and web platforms.

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Requirements

For development, you will only need Node.js and a node global package, npm, installed in your environement.

Node

• Node installation on Windows

  Just go on official Node.js website and download the installer. Also, be sure to have git available in your PATH, npm might need it (You can find git here).

• Node installation on Ubuntu

  You can install nodejs and npm easily with apt install, just run the following commands.

  $ sudo apt install nodejs
  $ sudo apt install npm
  

• Other Operating Systems

  You can find more information about the installation on the official Node.js website and the official NPM website.

If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following command.

$ node --version
v12.17.0

$ npm --version
6.14.4

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Prerequisite (for Web only)

Setup EnableX video calling application for Web

  $ npm install -g http-server
  $ git clone https://github.com/EnableX/One-to-One-Video-Sample-Web-Application
  $ cd One-to-One-Video-Sample-Web-Application

TLS/SSL

• First, you need to make sure that openssl is installed correctly, and you have key.pem and cert.pem files. You can generate them using this command:

  $ openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -new -nodes -x509 -days 3650 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem
  

• This generates a cert-key pair. Then you need to run the server with -S for enabling SSL and -C for your certificate file.

  $ http-server -S -C cert.pem
  

Install

• Switch out of the One-to-One-Video-Sample-Web-Application directory -

  $ cd ..
  

• Setup this project -

  $ git clone https://github.com/EnableX/push-notification-server.git
  $ cd push-notification-server
  $ npm install
  

Configure app (Backend)

Copy example.env as .env and then edit it with your settings.

• Create an EnableX Free Trial account on https://portal.enablex.io/cpaas/trial-sign-up/

• Create a project to get your APP ID & APP Key & update ENABLEX_APP_ID & ENABLEX_APP_KEY

• Alternatively, You can set env variable as followed -

  $ export ENABLEX_APP_ID=
  $ export ENABLEX_APP_KEY=
  

• Either set mongo database connection string as MONGO_CONN_STRING -

  $ export MONGO_CONN_STRING=
  

• OR set your mongo database connection string as MONGO_HOST, MONGO_PORT, MONGO_DB, MONGO_USER & MONGO_PASSWORD -

  $ export MONGO_HOST=
  $ export MONGO_PORT=
  $ export MONGO_DB=
  $ export MONGO_USER=
  $ export MONGO_PASSWORD=
  

• Set your EnableX video calling application URL, generated after running http-server -S -C cert.pem -

  $ export ENABLX_VIDEO_WEBAPP=
  

• Open public/users.html file and set the same value of ENABLX_VIDEO_WEBAPP

• Create a Firebase project on https://console.firebase.google.com/ > Go to your Dashboard > Click on the “gear” icon and access “project settings”.

• Find Server Key and update FIREBASE_SERVER_KEY.

• Alternatively, you can also set env variable as followed -

  $ export FIREBASE_SERVER_KEY=
  

• Update following for Android -

  $ export FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=
  $ export FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL=
  

• Update following for APN for iOS -

  $ export APNS_VOICE_PUSH=
  $ export APNS_CERT_PATH=
  $ export APNS_KEY_PATH=
  

Configure app (Frontend) - Optional for Android & iOS

Update following files to Initialise the Firebase app in the service worker by passing in your app's Firebase config object FIREBASE_CONFIG_OBJECT. You can find it on https://console.firebase.google.com/ > go to your Dashboard, Click on the “gear” icon and access Project settings > General > Your apps > Firebase SDK snippet > firebaseConfig.

• Open public/index.html file and set the value of FIREBASE_CONFIG_OBJECT
• Open public/firebase-messaging-sw.js file and set the value FIREBASE_CONFIG_OBJECT

Running the project

$ npm start