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2020 has been a challenging time for any organization that needs to physically bring people together, and especially schools. A common approach to help teachers and school children come together safely, is to ask parents to provide information every day before dropping their kids off at school. This post highlights the key decisions and steps […]

The Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android allow application developers to integrate real time audio, video and screen share functionality into their iOS and Android applications. The screen sharing functionality uses the same content sharing concept introduced in the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript (except that audio sharing is not supported). With screen sharing, […]

Overview We have heard from Amazon Chime SDK customers since our launch in 2019 that they need messaging features in their applications. Telehealth customers want to enable real-time and asynchronous communication between care providers and patients. Live event hosts want participants to discuss content in real-time over messaging while they watch a video stream. Services […]

The Amazon Chime SDK provides real-time communications components that developers can use to quickly add audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities to their own web or mobile applications. In this blog post, we introduce the open-source Amazon Chime SDK Smart Video Sending Demo. The Demo showcases how to dynamically display up to 16 video tiles […]

Over the course of the last six months, video has gone from a technology previously used in only a small number of meetings to a mission-critical application required for most business interactions. Whether it’s a telehealth consult with your doctor or a remote classroom, most organizations and individuals see the value of video across industry, […]

Comcast Business is offering businesses Amazon Chime Pro services free until October 31, 2020. With Amazon Chime, Comcast Business provides enterprise-grade online meetings and video conferencing without requiring an Amazon Web Services or Comcast Business account for the trial. Amazon Chime Pro from Comcast Business is a unified communication service to meet, chat, and collaborate […]

Amazon Web Services and Salesforce are further strengthening their global strategic partnership by announcing the use of the Amazon Chime SDK to power video communications in the new Salesforce Anywhere application. Announced at TrailheaDX 2020, Salesforce Anywhere is a new app to enable more effective collaboration embedded within Salesforce. The Amazon Chime SDK will enable […]

Amazon Chime is a meetings and video conferencing service. Developers can use the same communications infrastructure to add audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities directly to their applications using the Amazon Chime SDK. Since the launch of the Amazon Chime SDK at re:Invent 2019, many of our customers have been using the SDK to embed […]

On April 6, we released Amazon Chime proxy phone sessions. Developers can now easily enable two users to call or text for up to twelve hours, without requiring users to share their personal phone numbers. Instead of reaching each other using personal phone numbers, they use a number provided on demand by Amazon Chime proxy phone […]

This post demonstrates how to build a virtual classroom application using the real-time communication capabilities of the Amazon Chime SDK. Whether you are looking for a starter or a scalable solution, you can use the classroom demo application included in the Amazon Chime GitHub repository as part of this blog to get started. A classroom […]