Quickstart

This quickstart shows how to use Dyte's Android UI Kit SDK to add live video and audio to your Android applications.

To get started quickly, you can use our sample code available in the Android UI Kit Sample App GitHub repository. Clone and run the sample application to see the SDK in action.

Objective

You'll learn how to:

• Install the Dyte SDK
• Configure a Dyte meeting
• Initialize the SDK
• Launch the meeting UI

Before Getting Started

Make sure you've read the Getting Started with Dyte topic and completed the steps in the Integrate Dyte section. You must complete the following steps:

• Create a Dyte Developer Account
• Create a Dyte Meeting
• Add Participant to the meeting
• Install Android Studio

Step 1: Install the SDK from MavenCentral

dependencies {
    // (other dependencies)
    implementation 'io.dyte:uikit:+'
}

Note

If your app targets to lower versions of android (android api <= 24), Please enable core desugering in your app's build.gradle file like follows.

android {
  // other configurations
  compileOptions {
    // other configurations
    isCoreLibraryDesugaringEnabled = true

    // Sets Java compatibility to Java 8
    sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
  }
}

dependencies {
   // other dependencies
   coreLibraryDesugaring("com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs:2.0.4")
}

Step 2: Configure a Dyte meeting

Configure the following properties in the DyteMeetingInfoV2 class. You must pass a valid participant authToken obtained from the Add Participant API.

Name	Description
authToken	Authentication token generated using the Add Participant API after meeting creation.
enableAudio	Set whether to join the meeting with your Mic ON (true) or OFF (false).
enableVideo	Set whether to join the meeting with your Camera ON (true) or OFF (false).
baseUrl	Base URL of the Dyte environment you have created the meeting on.

val meetingInfo = DyteMeetingInfoV2(
  authToken = "<auth_token>",
  enableAudio = true, 
  enableVideo = true, 
  baseUrl = "dyte.io"
)

Step 3: Initialize the SDK

Initialize the DyteUIKit with the DyteUIKitBuilder class, using the meetingInfo configured above.

val dyteUIKitInfo = DyteUIKitInfo(
  activity = this,
  dyteMeetingInfo = meetingInfo
)
val dyteUIKit = DyteUIKitBuilder.build(dyteUIKitInfo)

Step 4: Launch the meeting UI

To launch the meeting UI all you need to do is call startMeeting() which will take care of everything for you.

dyteUIKit.startMeeting()