Meetings API - Migration Options

We've recently announced the upcoming sunset of the Meetings API. To avoid disruptions to your service powered by the Vonage Meetings API, we're pleased to offer two powerful alternatives - our Video API and the low-code Vonage Video Express. 

These solutions offer a reliable alternative to Meetings API and open up new possibilities for real-time communication within your applications.

This article will make you familiar with our Video API and Video Express and how you can seamlessly integrate these into your existing projects. Let's dive in!

Here Are Some Highlights of Vonage Video API

The Vonage Video API has been leading video communication innovation since 2007. Tokbox, which Vonage acquired in 2018, was one of the first Video API offerings to build on WebRTC when it debuted in 2012 and introduced the very first WebRTC mobile SDKs on the market. 

Vonage Video API offers the richest set of live video features on the market, honed over years in response to the needs mission-critical video customers. Read more about our extensive video features.

How to start with Video API

The Vonage Video API is a customizable option that allows developers to integrate real-time video capabilities into their applications, covering 1:1 video calling, group video chat, and large-scale interactive broadcasts. It provides a set of APIs for building customized features such as dynamic video recording, SIP interconnect, signaling, and live captions. It also offers a range of customization options, allowing developers to tailor the UX and UI to fit their application's design. 

We've developed a Vonage Video sample app that gives you a pre-built backend so you can get up and running fast, no server required! With almost no setup, you can create Vonage sessions, generate tokens for those sessions, archive (or record) sessions, and download those archives, all in a serverless infrastructure.

If you want to go DIY style you can use our in-depth documentation or contact us if you have a burning question.

JS/Web Guides

You can build your video app with a variety of languages: React Native, Flask and more. Our sample apps can go way beyond the basics! Check out the Video API Web Samples to see powerful from background blur to advanced topics on how to apply custom grayscale, sepia, and invert filters.

iOS and Android Guides

The Vonage Video API provides client SDKs for various platforms, including iOS and Android (as well as Windows, Linux and MacOS). The iOS SDK allows developers to integrate real-time video communication features into their iOS applications, including iPhones and iPads. The Android SDK offers the same capabilities with Android devices. By following these migration guides for iOS and Android, you can build an app that will give you the most of the capabilities meetings API gave you

We've got Video Sample Apps in a few different flavors on Github:

• Video Sample App in NodeJS
• Video Sample App in PHP

A new API - same great quality

We are here to support this transition and walk you through each  step, as needed. 

Please contact us to discuss your needs and set up a technical review of how we can support your migration.

If you have questions, see our Video API Product Page and documentation. Join us on the Vonage Developer Slack or send us a post on X, and we will get back to you. You may also leave our team some feedback on your experience. In addition you can leave comments on the Github repo if you have questions. Join our community of WebRTC enthusiasts which values reliability and innovation, making your video experiences seamless and worry-free.