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VASTreaming library keeps growing, responding to customers' needs. That was the main reason to update our website providing new components, features, and detailed documentation for our products. Visitors may also appreciate the convenient access to every section of the new version. We have changed our main menu. Now it contains much more options available from any page, even on mobile devices. Yes, we did our best for our mobile users, too.
This update provides VASTreaming libraries with detailed, easy-to-grasp, and handy-to-navigate documentation available online, with clear illustrations and comprehensive descriptions of every component of the library. It was not a simple task - our software product is very specific, primarily addressing advanced developers who keep their fingers on the pulse of modern technologies, so we tried to be brief and clear in our explanations, giving as many code samples and demos descriptions as possible. At the same time, we would wish to make the libraries accessible for those developers who just recently expressed their interest in the advantages of media streaming and want to implement high tech elements of the streaming libraries into their applications. That is why our documentation has well-illustrated 'Basic Principles' and exhaustive 'Terminology' chapters.
There was a great job done to categorize VASTreaming library elements by streaming end points, protocols, platforms, media sources, and processing media. Now someone may even use our website itself as a guide to see trends in streaming app development. Who knows, maybe it gives some ideas for your future project as it has already helped us to see what is really worth our efforts and what is not. We shall be glad if you find our updated website helpful in this respect, because we love new interesting, even challenging projects and are always open to your offers. Be free to contact us anytime.
RTMP is one of old Internet protocols, initially intended for playing Flash video and owned by Adobe. As flash video is dying slowly and surely after its domination over web multimedia for dozens of years, RTMP is still in demand and even keep gaining popularity in live video streaming applications. Undoubtedly, technologies are always on the move, and newly developed protocols can boast close functionality, but long and successful history secures RTMP reliable positions in sense of its compatibility with an entire generation of video streaming software. In spite of its rivals, RTMP is trending as never before thanks to a constantly growing number of live streaming services. Live event streaming, outdoor trip streaming, educational and healthcare streaming along with other types of this tech-related activity emerge on tech horizon. We don't talk about video hosting anymore — it's already a history. New video-related online platforms provide video streaming hosting. Some of them have even more narrowed specialization. For example, one of Amazon's subsidiaries, Twitch Interactive has launched a web platform dedicated primarily to game streaming that is quickly turned into new e-sport with numerous fans over the world. Nowadays established game development companies, such as Ubisoft and Telltales Games, use this platform for beta-testing their products in real-time. In 2018 Twitch attracted more than 15 million active users a day with its 2.2 million broadcasters.
All these top-notch services use RTMP as a base protocol for their server-side applications. The main reason is such a remarkable feature as publishing, supported by RTMP. Publishing is a process of pushing a live media stream from client side to a server for its further distribution. Many modern protocols lack this feature or provide it in much less effective way. This probably makes RTMP one of the most trending technologies on Android right now.
VASTreaming RTMP library for Android is an extended set of standard RTMP library written in Java for easy integration into Android Studio projects and oriented exactly for streaming applications. It is fast, robust, light and does not have any external dependencies. One of the key advantages of this library is very low latency (on certain platforms only), what can be crucial for such applications as video chats and video game streaming. Thus, using the library, you are able to participate in the worldwide trend.
VASTreaming RTMP library for Android allows you capturing the device screen as well as camera and even more, mix the following video sources together in real-time:
Any streamer would appreciate this option. It would be especially helpful in game and educational streaming when you need to demonstrate what is happening right now on your screen and in your room simultaneously, accompanying actions with audial and textual commentaries. VASTreaming RTMP library for Android provides not only the most demand function of publishing live stream to servers but also the sustained client mode that allows your app watching live streams directly from RTMP servers. The server mode is also included and can be used to extend the commonly utilized media flow and pull media data from your Android device or to build an intermediate server forwarding media flow in a way specific exactly for your business. VASTreaming provides extensive support for developers and quick-to-help service to answer any question arises while the VASTreaming library use. If convenient for development process, it can be arranged to have a full-scale supervising over the integration of streaming libraries into your projects.