Client

The documentation for Huddle01 Android SDK to connect your Android App to Huddle01 servers.

Getting Started

Add Jitpack

Add Jitpack in the repositories block inside allprojects block in your project-level build.gradle file.

allprojects {
		repositories {
			...
			maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
		}
	}

2. Add Huddle01 Android SDK Dependency

Add the dependency in your app-level build.gradle file inside the dependency block. Also, replace the version number with the latest one.

dependencies {
    ...
    implementation 'com.github.Huddle-01:huddle01-android-sdk:v1.0.1'
}

3. Initialize HuddleClient

To initialize the HuddleClient, call the initApp function inside the onCreate of your Application class.

public class Application extends android.app.Application {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        HuddleClient.initApp(this);
    }
}

You will need to create your own class extending the Android Application class and make necessary changes in your AndroidManifest.xml file.

Creating and Joining Room

To create a new Room, you will need to create a new object of HuddleClient type.

HuddleClient huddleClient = new HuddleClient.Builder(getApplicationContext(), apiKey)
                .setPeerId(mPeerId)
                .setRoomId(mRoomId)
                .setDisplayName(mDisplayName)
                .setCanConsume(true)
                .setCanProduce(true)
                .setCanUseDataChannel(true)
                .setRoomEventListener(roomEventListener)
                .setMeListener(meListener)
                .setFrontCamEnabledOnInit(true)
                .build();

Here, some mandatory things to do are are:

Passing context in Builder()
Passing an API key inside the Builder()
Setting event listener of type RoomEventListener in setRoomEventListener()
Setting event listener of type MeListener in setMeListener()

The defaults for rest of the fields are:

peerId - A random string of size 8
roomId - A random string of size 8
displayName - A random string of size 6
canConsume - true
canProduce - true
canUseDataChannel - true
frontCamEnabledOnInit - true (false means that the session will start with a rear camera)

build() function will terminate the object creation process and create a room with the provided parameters.

You may use this sample API Key: i4pzqbpxza8vpijQMwZsP1H7nZZEH0TN3vR4NdNS

To join room, once the room is created, call the joinRoom() function. Do check for RECORD_AUDIO, INTERNET, CAMERA permissions before joining the room.

if(permissionGranted){
    huddleClient.joinRoom();
}

Event Listeners

When you create a room, you need to supply two Event Listeners:

RoomEventListener
MeListener

RoomEventListener

Trigger: on Room URL generation complete in the SDK.

Returns: A string roomUrl corresponding to the roomId

public void onRoomUrlGenerated(String roomId, String roomUrl) {
    //set the room URL in your viewmodel/store
}

Trigger: when Room state changes due to some event in the SDK.

Returns: state of type ConnectionState.

public void onRoomStateChanged(ConnectionState state) {
    //perform action
}

ConnectionState can contain 4 possible values:

ConnectionState.NEW: when a new room is created.
ConnectionState.CONNECTING: when a join request is sent to the huddle servers and you're not connected to the room.
ConnectionState.CONNECTED: when huddle servers grant you the connection to the room. Now, you're inside the room.
ConnectionState.CLOSED: when you terminate the session by calling close() or the maximum number of retries to join the room have been reached.

Trigger: any change in Peers like new peer joined, peer left, and peer changed display name.

Returns: a String named actionType denoting which action has occurred, a String named peerId denoting the peerId on which the action has occurred, a Nullable JSONObject named info, which is NonNull when new peer is added.

public void onPeerChanged(String actionType, String peerId, @Nullable JSONObject info, @Nullable String displayName) {
    //ideally switch between actionType and perform actions
}

There are 3 possible actionTypes:

Constants.ACTION_ADDED: when a new peer arrives
Constants.ACTION_DISPLAY_NAME_CHANGED: when a peer changes its display name.
Constants.ACTION_REMOVED: when a peer terminates its session or is removed somehow.

Trigger: when a new producer is added, a producer is paused/resumed, or a producer is removed.

Returns: a String named actionType denoting the action that has taken place, a producer of type HuddleProducer on which the action has taken place.

public void onProducersChanged(String actionType, HuddleProducer producer) {
    //ideally switch between actionTypes and perform actions
}

There are 4 possible actionTypes:

Constants.ACTION_ADDED: when a new producer is added
Constants.ACTION_PAUSED: when a producer (mic/camera) pauses its stream.
Constants.ACTION_RESUMED: when a producer (mic/camera) pauses its stream.
Constants.ACTION_REMOVED: when a producer is removed like a camera is disabled or peer leaves the session.

Trigger: when a new consumer is added.

Returns: String peerId denoting the peerId on which the consumer is added, String consumerType denoting mic/camera type consumers, a consumer of type HuddleConsumer, a boolean remotelyPaused denoting if the consumer is already paused from the peer side when joining.

public void onConsumerAdded(String peerId, String consumerType, HuddleConsumer consumer, boolean remotelyPaused) {
    //perform action
}

Trigger: when a consumer is removed due to some reason.

Returns: peerId denoting which peer the consumer is associated with, consumerId denoting the consumer which is removed.

public void onConsumerRemoved(String peerId, String consumerId) {
    //perform action
}

Trigger: when a consumer is paused/resumed.

Returns: A string actionType denoting type of action taken place, string consumerId, and string originator ("local"/"remote").

public void onConsumerStateChanged(String actionType, String consumerId, String originator) {
    //ideally switch between actionTypes and perform actions.
}

There are 2 supported actionTypes:

Constants.ACTION_PAUSED
Constants.ACTION_RESUMED

Trigger: when a DataProducer is added/removed.

Returns: String actionType denoting type of action, a dataProducer of type HuddleDataProducer.

public void onDataProducerChanged(String actionType, HuddleDataProducer dataProducer) {
    //do something
}

There are 2 supported actionTypes:

Constants.ACTION_ADDED
Constants.ACTION_REMOVED

Trigger: when a DataConsumer is added/removed.

Returns: String actionType denoting type of action, string peerId denoting which peer the data consumer is associated with, and a dataConsumer of type HuddleDataConsumer.

public void onDataConsumerChanged(String actionType, String peerId, HuddleDataConsumer dataConsumer) {
    // do something
}

There are 2 supported actionTypes:

Constants.ACTION_ADDED
Constants.ACTION_REMOVED

Trigger: when a reaction arrives from some peer.

Returns: a peer of type Peer and a string reaction denoting reaction in the string unicode format.

public void onReactionReceived(Peer peer, String reaction) {
    //do something
}

Trigger: when a chat message is recieved from some peer.

Returns: a peer of type Peer and a string message denoting the text message.

public void onChatReceived(Peer peer, String message) {
    //do something
}

MeListener

Trigger: when SDK registers your information while creating the room.

Returns: String peerId denoting your peerId, string displayName denoting your display name, deviceInfo of type DeviceInfo denoting your device information.

public void onMeReceived(String peerId, String displayName, DeviceInfo deviceInfo) {
    //do something
}

Triggers: reports the capabilities of your device, if can send/receive audio and video.

Returns: boolean canSendMic denoting audio capability, boolean canSendCam denoting video capability.

public void onMediaCapabilitiesReceived(boolean canSendMic, boolean canSendCam) {
    //do something
}

Available Methods

The following methods solve complex video conferencing tasks in a single line:

Function

Purpose

Remarks

joinRoom()

joins the room when the room is created

Use only when permissions are granted and room is created.

closeRoom()

leaves the room, if there are no remaining participants then disposes the room

To be called after the joinRoom() function.

sendChatMessage(String message)

sends chat message to all other peers via data channels

make sure useDataChannel is set to true while creating the room.

sendReaction(String reaction)

sends a reaction via data channels. The reaction should be a unicode of the emoji in the String format.

make sure useDataChannel is set to true while creating the room.

changeCam()

toggles between front and back cameras if available.

enableCam()

enables camera and related producers.

Preferably used when the camera is already disabled.

disableCam()

disables camera and related producers.

Preferably used when the camera is already enabled.

muteMic()

mutes the audio and pauses the related producers.

Preferably used when the mic is already unmuted.

unmuteMic()

unmutes the audio and resumes the related producers.

Preferably used when the mic is already muted.

changeDisplayName()

changes the device's display name.

Introduced Data Types

The Huddle01 Android SDK offers you flexibility to perform state management according to the design pattern that is being used in your app (MVVM, MVI, etc.). However, we also expose certain data types that may definitely come handy while performing state management as these data types are capable of internal state management.

State Data Types

Peers

Maintains info related to all the peers.

Function

Parameters

Return Type

addPeer

String peerId
JSONObject peerInfo

void

removePeer

String peerId

void

setPeerDisplayName

String peerId
String displayName

void

addConsumer

String peerId
HuddleConsumer consumer

void

removeConsumer

String peerId
String consumerId

void

addDataConsumer

String peerId
HuddleDataConsumer consumer

void

removeDataConsumer

String peerId
String consumerId

void

getPeer

String peerId

Peer

getAllPeers

List<Peer>

clear

void

Consumers

Maintains info related to all the consumers in the session.

Function

Parameters

Return Type

addConsumer

String type
HuddleConsumer consumer
boolean remotelyPaused

void

removeConsumer

String consumerId

void

setConsumerPaused

String consumerId
String originator

void

setConsumerResumed

String consumerId
String originator

void

clear

void

Producers

Maintains info related to all the producers in the session.

Function

Parameters

Return Type

addProducer

HuddleProducer producer

void

removeProducer

String producerId

void

setProducerPaused

String producerId

void

setProducerResumed

String producerId

void

filter

String kind("audio"/"video")

ProducersWrapper

clear

void

DataProducers

Maintains info related to all data producers in the session.

Function

Parameters

Return Type

addDataProducer

HuddleDataProducer producer

void

removeDataProducer

String producerId

void

clear

void

DataConsumers

Maintains info related to all data consumers in the session.

Function

Parameters

Return Type

addDataConsumer

HuddleDataConsumer consumer

void

removeDataConsumer

String consumerId

void

clear

void

Other Data Types

Huddle01 Android SDK also exposes some other data types which are used internally as well as exposed to the app.

Peer

Field

Getter

Setter

DataType

✔️

✖️

String

displayName

✔️

String

deviceInfo

✔️

DeviceInfo

consumers

✔️

✖️

Set<String>

dataConsumers

✔️

✖️

Set<String>

DeviceInfo

Field

Getter

Setter

DataType

flag

✔️

String

name

✔️

String

version

✔️

String

HuddleConsumer

Function

Return Type

getId()

String

getRtpParameters()

String

getKind()

String

resume()

void

close()

void

dispose()

void

pause()

void

getTrack()

org.webrtc.MediaStreamTrack

getPaused()

boolean

getClosed()

boolean

HuddleProducer

Function

Return Type

getId()

String

getRtpParameters

String

getKind()

String

resume()

void

close()

void

dispose()

void

pause()

void

getTrack()

org.webrtc.MediaStreamTrack

getPaused()

boolean

getClosed()

boolean

HuddleDataConsumer

Function

Return Type

getId()

String

getLabel()

String

getSctpStreamParameters()

String

getProtocol()

String

getDataProducerId()

String

getClosed()

boolean

close()

void

dispose()

void

HuddleDataProducer

Function

Return Type

getId()

String

getLabel()

String

getSctpStreamParameters()

String

getProtocol()

String

getClosed()

boolean

Notify

Function

Return Type

getId()

String

getType()

String

getText()

String

getTimeout

int

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