You might recall from last week’s post that we planned to pivot our app development to modifying the source code of Jitsi Meet. About an hour after the post was published, we made another pivot back to developing our app from scratch using the API provided by lib-jitsi-meet. Although it might seem like we can’t stop changing our minds, we’ve made some huge progress in app development over the past week so it seems like this plan is here to stay.

Through lib-jitsi-meet, we were able to implement camera and audio sharing, screen sharing, chat functionality, and basic routing for different conference rooms in only a few days! Here’s a sneak peek of what our app looks like right now:

Over the next week, we’ll be continuing to add features to our app like remote control, as well as debugging existing features. One of the only downsides of starting a new app from scratch like this is that the codebase changes very frequently, and often drastically so. To get around this, we’ll be meeting to code together and keep everyone in the loop!