Linphone has introduced a new group chat feature in their beta iOS and Android apps. The group chat allows users to send and receive messages from multiple devices, create text sessions with multiple participants, and share images, videos and files. It also allows admins to add or remove participants and see delivery status of group messages. Linphone is an open source softphone that provides free voice and video calls across operating systems with features like audio and video calls, file sharing, encryption, and support for multiple device types and accounts.
3. INTRODUCTION
• As we are a Renowned Mobility provider of the softphone, We would love to
provide more knowledge to the users about Linphone. Linphone is basically used for
free voice or video calls. It is an open source SIP Phone which can run on any
operating system like iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux irrespective to the
platform. It makes communication among people easier .it is includes different
languages like French, English. It allows us to interact freely with voice, video, and
text messaging over the internet.
• The whole Linphone’s team intensively worked hard for several months to get the
new concept of Group Chat and the time has come to announce that the Beta
Versions for Linphone iOS and Android are now open to test this exciting function!
4. FEATURES OF THE NEWLY AVAILABLE GROUP CHAT IN
LINPHONE
• Allows to send and receives messages from multiple devices
• Create text sessions in a way that multiple participants are involved
• Naming other participants of the group as admin and this can be done by the admin
who created the group
• Add participants or remove participants from the group
• Share images, videos, documents and other files among the group members
• Get notifications in the group when added or removed a participant
• Can see message delivery status that you send for the group messages.
5. COMMON FEATURES OF LINPHONE
• Audio & HD video calls
• Multiple calls management
• Call transfer
• Audio conferencing
• Instant Messaging with message delivery status
• Pictures and files sharing
• Call quality indicator
• Secure user authentication
• SRTP, ZRTP and SRTP-DTLS voice and video encryption
• Account creation assistant
6. ADVANCED FEATURES INCLUDE:
• Audio Codecs
• Capability to configure multiple proxy accounts with different transports
• Video Codecs
• Hardware accelerated H264 codec for Mac iOS and Android
• Less bandwidth mode for audio calls over 2G networks.
• Adaptive bit rate control algorithm: congestion control and evaluation of available bandwidth, in order
to optimize audio & video quality
• Innovative RTP jitter buffer algorithm, which quickly accommodates to very jittered network
conditions and improves control of audio latency
• Call handover across network access type change
• DTMF support using SIP INFO or RFC 4733
• Integration with push notification
7. CONCLUSION
• VoIP mobile app development is very popularly known for its contribution to
the Linphone SIP,VOIP development environment, and customization
solutions. Linphone brings us a competency to develop a Simple Android VoIP
Calling App.