Company
Date Published
Author
Marcus
Word count
805
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Daily Android Starter Kit is a production-ready video conferencing app that serves as a real-world example of how to integrate the Client SDK for Android into your own products. The kit includes the full source code, which can be used as a base when building your own apps. The starter kit has been designed with production-readiness in mind, but it lacks user-friendly error handling and uses only standard layout libraries from Google. To get started, developers need to sign up for a Daily account, clone the source code, and open the project in Android Studio. The app features multiple fragments, including JoinFragment, WaitingForOthersFragment, and InCallFragment, which bind to the DemoCallService instance to get updates on the latest call state. The video grid is displayed using a custom layout, DailyGridLayout, which lays out the grid tiles in a 1:1 aspect ratio. The app uses two services, DemoCallService and DemoActiveCallService, to manage the call lifecycle and keep the app alive while it's active.