This change in online communication paved a new way for video chat apps. People and businesses are now looking for the best video chat that could help them meet, discuss, and socialize online easily and efficiently.
There was a time when video chat apps used to be considered as a secondary option to meet online. But when the Covid-19 pandemic forced people and the business world to stay home and work from home, the usage of video calling and chat apps grew dramatically. Zoom, Skype, Google Duo, Houseparty got a huge surge in their number of app downloads during the lockdown. Zoom stood out as the most downloaded app in 2020.
Developing a mobile app that provides fast and seamless features to meet and socialize online requires an understanding of technology and user behavior. If you want to make such an app, here in this article, we would tell you how to create a video chat app.
How to Create a Video Chat App?
These 7 steps below will guide you to create a perfect Video Chat Application. Read the detailed steps below.
Step 1: Research Who Is Your End-User
End-user means the one who would be using your video chat application.
This first step is to decide for whom you are going to create a video chat app. Are you developing the app just for casual hangouts or socializing like Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber? or do you want to build this app for both business and normal working purposes like Zoom Meeting, Skype, Houseparty, Google Duo? Research who is your end-user.
You can create their persona. For example, today, most video calling apps are utilized by moses who are under 30 years. They like to use attractive stickers, emojis, GIFs, and image filters during chat or video conferencing. Hence, before designing the app you have to include these points.
Step 2: Create a list of Features
In this step of video chat application development, you need to make a list of features for your app. Analyze what other video calling apps hold popular features which have huge demand in the market. Incorporate essential and other exciting features that people look for. Keep in mind
the audience wants to see what is special in your app otherwise they already have better options to choose from. To give you an idea, here are the features of video chat mobile application that you should include:
- Recording feature for both audio and video
- Contact list
- Profile management
- Audio and video calls
- Real-time Text Chat
- Group calls
- Push notification
- End-to-end encryption
- Screen sharing
- File sharing
- Customize background
Advanced features
- Virtual background
- AR filters
- Noise cancellation
- Custom Stickers, GIFs, and Emoji icons
- Image filters
Step 3: UI/UX Design
Mobile app design is an important step that determines how users would feel about your app. Its color, user interface, icons, typography, scrolling, selection, and other UI elements influence how users will move within your app. Therefore, you need to ensure your video chat app design includes all the attractive and essential features. The app must incorporate intuitive UI elements that give a personalized experience to users.
Step 4: Wireframing and Prototyping
Once you design your video chat application it is critical to visualize the app so you can check how the UI/UX elements look and appear in the app. It first starts with wireframing where you see the outline of structure and payout, how the information and overall design work in the user interface. After wireframing, do prototyping to test the app and its MVP features and functionality.
Step 5: App Development
This is where the real action begins. Start coding your app using development frameworks. There are mainly 2 components in the application development process- front-end client side development & back-end server side development.
And for each side, you need to choose the technology stack that includes programming languages, QA and testing tools, a list of APIs, and development frameworks depending on mobile OS platforms-Android and iOS.
In front-end development, you need to create functions and algorithms for communications, core logic and UI. Here are the below frameworks to use in front end development for video chat app
For Android
- Kotlin
- React Native
- Flutter
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Node.js
For iOS
- Swift
- Objective-C
- Xcode
In the back end, you have to enable features and functionality for storing data, server logic, and web services. Here are the tools you can use for the back end:
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3
Step 6: Integrate Video Chat APIs into Your App
Application Programming Interface (API) gives the required and additional features and power to a mobile app. A video chat app is not just a medium of online communication but a digital product that allows users to do a lot of things in communication. Your target audience may use MAP during the discussion, share weather reports, or other features that could support their business meeting or social hangout within the app.
Therefore, you should integrate APIs into your video chat application to make it more engaging and useful. There are various video call APIs and SDKs present in the market. To guide you, here we are suggesting top Video Chat APIs:
- Pubnub
- CometChat
- Twilio
- Quickblox
- MirrorFly
- Vidyo
- Sinch
- Apphitect
- Enablex
Step 7: Test and Deploy
Now we are at the final stage. You have developed the app and now it's time for testing. Check coding to eliminate bugs. This is critical before you launch your video chat app on the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. You need to test your app for each of the following areas:
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Functional testing
- Compatibility testing
- User interface (UI) testing
You should use good mobile app testing tools and software to ensure there are no bugs or coding errors that might hamper the app's performance at any stage. After testing, validate your app with Quality Assurance standards to give it the final nod. Once Quality Engineers validate the app's features you are now ready to launch your app.
Conclusion: Create With an Expert
The increasing usage of video calling and conferencing in social and business communication has boosted the demand for top-notch video chat and conferencing apps. Zoom, which was an underrated app a few years ago, got a massive hit during the Covid-19 pandemic. It proves the way current business practices are adopting the online culture of meeting and socializing there would be higher chances for more apps to succeed.
And this is where MobileCoderz can help you. We are a Best Mobile App Development Company. We have in-house developers and programmers who hold great expertise in developing beautiful video chat apps
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