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Is it possible to intergrate Google Hangouts natively into an Android App?


I'm currently building an online tutoring app to help solve my country's crisis in education.

To do this, I need to integrate a video calling service. I'd prefer to use Hangouts over other services since it is based on webRTC and its free. However after much searching, I haven't found anything that explicitly states whether or not its possible to integrate it natively or through a webview. Do you have any ideas on how to go about doing this or if its even possible?

Thank you so much! :)


Solution

  • Unfortunately there is no way to integrate this functionality yet, the hangout API is web based and since hangout requires the camera there is no way to enable this from a webview.

    See these answers: start google hangouts in android

    Google hangout API for Android

    How to embed Hangout chat in my Android App