WebRTC on Mobile with React Native: the Jitsi Journey

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Jitsi converts its React Native app into true mobile SDKs: iOS as a statically linked framework (CocoaPods), Android as a library published to a private Maven repo, and a Flutter wrapper plus an exportable React Native component. Work uses react-native-webrtc, manual Gradle/JAR republishing to control 100+ dependencies, and started in 2016 with first store release March 2017; a two‑person mobile team automates releases and maintains the code. Result: a full-frame SDK that customers use in production since mid‑2017.

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1. 0:00Introduction to WebRTC
2. 1:05Jitsi architecture overview
3. 2:09React Native migration journey
4. 3:53Building React Native WebRTC
5. 5:18Full-frame SDK approach
6. 7:04iOS SDK development
7. 10:55Android SDK challenges
8. 16:20Native SDKs achievement
9. 17:04Flutter integration
10. 18:50React Native component export
11. 20:59Maintenance and automation
12. 22:43Choosing a mobile framework
13. 24:31Q&A session

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