Product Updates - August 2026: React Native v1.0.0, Persistent Media Configuration, and Smarter AI Agent Turn-Taking
Blog post from Video SDK
VideoSDK’s August 2026 releases emphasize more reliable real-time media behavior, clearer RTC errors, improved reconnect handling, and enhanced AI voice-agent conversations across its SDK ecosystem. React Native SDK v1.0.0 introduces Promise-based APIs, typed errors, PubSub batching and backpressure controls, predictable media-operation timeouts, and breaking removal of external video playback APIs, while iOS, Android, and Flutter updates preserve camera and microphone settings through toggles, reconnects, device changes, and meeting-mode transitions. JavaScript, React, iOS, and Flutter SDKs add clearer errors for invalid meeting states, bounded reconnect outcomes, signalling timeouts, and build compatibility improvements. VideoSDK Agents SDK versions 1.0.26 and 1.0.27 improve speech turn-taking, interruption phrases, voice activity detection, telephony codec support, speech-to-speech pipelines, and warm transfers with recording support. Other updates include pre-call testing in the Prebuilt SDK example, expanded Python media capabilities, updated IoT documentation, developer tutorials and AI tooling resources, and availability through Microsoft and AWS Marketplace.
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