omni_jitsi_meet

Jitsi Meet Plugin for Flutter. Supports Android, iOS, and Web platforms.

"Jitsi Meet is an open-source (Apache) WebRTC JavaScript application that uses Jitsi Videobridge to provide high quality, secure and scalable video conferences."

Find more information about Jitsi Meet here

Table of Contents

Configuration

IOS

  • Note: Example compilable with XCode 12.2 & Flutter 1.22.4.

Podfile

Ensure in your Podfile you have an entry like below declaring platform of 12.0 or above and disable BITCODE.

platform :ios, '12.0'

...

post_install do |installer|
  installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
    target.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings['ENABLE_BITCODE'] = 'NO'
    end
  end
end

Info.plist

Add NSCameraUsageDescription and NSMicrophoneUsageDescription to your Info.plist.

<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME) MyApp needs access to your camera for meetings.</string>
<key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME) MyApp needs access to your microphone for meetings.</string>

Android

Gradle

Set dependencies of build tools gradle to minimum 7.3.1:

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.3.1' <!-- Upgrade this -->
    classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
}

Set distribution gradle wrapper to minimum 7.4.

distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4-bin.zip <!-- Upgrade this -->

AndroidManifest.xml

Jitsi Meet's SDK AndroidManifest.xml will conflict with your project, namely the application:label field. To counter that, go into android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml and add the tools library and tools:replace="android:label" to the application tag.


<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="yourpackage.com"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"> <!-- Add this -->
    <application tools:replace="android:label" android:name="your.application.name" android:label="My Application" android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher">
        ...
    </application>
    ...
</manifest>

Minimum SDK Version 24

Update your minimum sdk version to 24 in android/app/build.gradle

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.thorito.jitsi_meet_example"
    minSdkVersion 24 // Required for Jitsi
    targetSdkVersion 33
    versionCode flutterVersionCode.toInteger()
    versionName flutterVersionName
}

Proguard

Jitsi's SDK enables proguard, but without a proguard-rules.pro file, your release apk build will be missing the Flutter Wrapper as well as react-native code. In your Flutter project's android/app/build.gradle file, add proguard support

buildTypes {
    release {
        // TODO: Add your own signing config for the release build.
        // Signing with the debug keys for now, so `flutter run --release` works.
        signingConfig signingConfigs.debug

        // Add below 2 lines for proguard
        minifyEnabled true
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
}

Then add a file in the same directory called proguard-rules.pro. See the example app's proguard-rules.pro file to know what to paste in.

Note
If you do not create the proguard-rules.pro file, then your app will crash when you try to join a meeting or the meeting screen tries to open but closes immediately. You will see one of the below errors in logcat.

## App crashes ##
java.lang.RuntimeException: Parcel android.os.Parcel@8530c57: Unmarshalling unknown type code 7536745 at offset 104
    at android.os.Parcel.readValue(Parcel.java:2747)
    at android.os.Parcel.readSparseArrayInternal(Parcel.java:3118)
    at android.os.Parcel.readSparseArray(Parcel.java:2351)
    .....
## Meeting won't open and you go to previous screen ##
W/unknown:ViewManagerPropertyUpdater: Could not find generated setter for class com.BV.LinearGradient.LinearGradientManager
W/unknown:ViewManagerPropertyUpdater: Could not find generated setter for class com.facebook.react.uimanager.g
W/unknown:ViewManagerPropertyUpdater: Could not find generated setter for class com.facebook.react.views.art.ARTGroupViewManager
W/unknown:ViewManagerPropertyUpdater: Could not find generated setter for class com.facebook.react.views.art.a
.....

WEB

To implement you need to include Jitsi Js library in the index.html of web section

<script src="https://meet.jit.si/external_api.js" type="application/javascript"></script>

Example:


<body>
<!-- This script installs service_worker.js to provide PWA functionality to
     application. For more information, see:
     https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/primers/service-workers -->
<script>
    if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
      window.addEventListener('load', function () {
        navigator.serviceWorker.register('/flutter_service_worker.js');
      });
    }
  

</script>
<script src="https://meet.jit.si/external_api.js" type="application/javascript"></script>
<script src="main.dart.js" type="application/javascript"></script>
</body>
</html>

Note See usage example in jitsi_meet plugin

Join A Meeting

_joinMeeting() async {
  try {
    FeatureFlag featureFlag = FeatureFlag();
    featureFlag.resolution = FeatureFlagVideoResolution.MD_RESOLUTION; // Limit video resolution to 360p

    final options = JitsiMeetingOptions(
        room: 'myroom',
        // Required, spaces will be trimmed
        serverURL: 'https://someHost.com',
        // Ex: https://meet.jit.si'
        subject: 'Meeting with thorito',
        userDisplayName: 'My Name',
        userEmail: 'myemail@email.com',
        userAvatarURL: 'https://someimageurl.com/image.jpg',
        // or .png
        audioOnly: false,
        audioMuted: false,
        videoMuted: false,
        featureFlags: featureFlag,
        webOptions: {
          'roomName': 'myroom',
          'width': '100%',
          'height': '100%',
          'enableWelcomePage': false,
          'enableNoAudioDetection': true,
          'enableLobbyChat': false,
          'enableNoisyMicDetection': true,
          'enableClosePage': false,
          'disableRemoveRaisedHandOnFocus': false,
          'disableReactions': true,
          'prejoinPageEnabled': false,
          'hideDisplayName': true,
          'hideConferenceSubject': true,
          'hideConferenceTimer': true,
          'hideParticipantsStats': true,
          'hideLobbyButton': true,
          'disableInviteFunctions': true,
          'chromeExtensionBanner': null,
          'readOnlyName': true,
          'participantsPane': {
            'hideModeratorSettingsTab': true,
            'hideMoreActionsButton': true,
            'hideMuteAllButton': true,
          },
          'hideAddRoomButton': true,
          'breakoutRooms': {
            'hideAddRoomButton': true,
            'hideAutoAssignButton': true,
            'hideJoinRoomButton': true,
            'hideModeratorSettingsTab': true,
            'hideMoreActionsButton': true,
            'hideMuteAllButton': true,
          },
          'lang': 'en',
          'configOverwrite': {
            'doNotFlipLocalVideo': true,
            'prejoinPageEnabled': false,
            'disableDeepLinking': true,
            'enableLobbyChat': false,
            'enableClosePage': false,
            'hideDisplayName': true,
            'hideConferenceTimer': true,
            'hideParticipantsStats': true,
            'hideLobbyButton': true,
            'readOnlyName': true,
            'giphy': {
              'enable': false,
            },
            'participantsPane': {
              'hideModeratorSettingsTab': true,
              'hideMoreActionsButton': true,
              'hideMuteAllButton': true,
            },
            'hideAddRoomButton': true,
            'breakoutRooms': {
              'hideAddRoomButton': true,
              'hideAutoAssignButton': true,
              'hideJoinRoomButton': true,
              'hideModeratorSettingsTab': true,
              'hideMoreActionsButton': true,
              'hideMuteAllButton': true,
            },
            // https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/config.js
            'toolbarButtons': [
              'camera',
              'desktop',
              'download',
              'filmstrip',
              'hangup',
              'highlight',
              'microphone',
              'noisesuppression',
              'select-background',
              'tileview',
              'toggle-camera',
              'whiteboard'
            ]
          },
          'userInfo': {
            'displayName': 'My Name',
            'email': 'myemail@email.com',
          }
        });
    
  } catch (error) {
    debugPrint("error: $error");
  }
}

JitsiMeetingOptions

Field Required Default Description
room Yes N/A Unique room name that will be appended to serverURL. Valid characters: alphanumeric, dashes, and underscores.
subject No $room Meeting name displayed at the top of the meeting. If null, defaults to room name where dashes and underscores are replaced with spaces and first characters are capitalized.
userDisplayName No "Fellow Jitster" User's display name.
userEmail No none User's email address.
audioOnly No false Start meeting without video. Can be turned on in meeting.
audioMuted No false Start meeting with audio muted. Can be turned on in meeting.
videoMuted No false Start meeting with video muted. Can be turned on in meeting.
serverURL No meet.jitsi.si Specify your own hosted server. Must be a valid absolute URL of the format <scheme>://<host>[/path], i.e. https://someHost.com. Defaults to Jitsi Meet's servers.
userAvatarURL N/A none User's avatar URL.
token N/A none JWT token used for authentication.
featureFlag No see below Object of FeatureFlag class used to enable/disable features and set video resolution of Jitsi Meet SDK.
configOverrides No see below Object of ConfigOverrides class used to enable/disable features and set video resolution of Jitsi Meet SDK.
webOptions No see below Settings in web

FeatureFlag

Feature flag allows you to limit video resolution and enable/disable few features of Jitsi Meet SDK mentioned in the list below.
If you don't provide any flag to JitsiMeetingOptions, default values will be used.

We are using the official list of flags, taken from the Jitsi Meet repository

Flag Default (Android) Default (iOS) Description
addPeopleEnabled true true Enable the blue button "Add people", show up when you are alone in a call. Required for flag inviteEnabled to work.
audioFocusDisabled false false Flag indicating if the SDK should not require the audio focus.
audioMuteButtonEnabled true true Flag indicating if the audio mute button should be displayed.
audioOnlyButtonEnabled true true Flag indicating that the Audio only button in the overflow menu is enabled.
calendarEnabled true auto Enable calendar integration.
callIntegrationEnabled true true Enable call integration (CallKit on iOS, ConnectionService on Android). SEE REMARK BELOW
carModeEnabled true auto Flag indicating if calendar integration should be enabled.
closeCaptionsEnabled true true Enable close captions (subtitles) option in menu.
conferenceTimerEnabled true true Enable conference timer.
chatEnabled true true Enable chat (button and feature).
filmstripEnabled true true Flag indicating if the filmstrip should be enabled.
fullscreenEnabled true true Flag indicating if fullscreen (immersive) mode should be enabled.
helpButtonEnabled true true Flag indicating if the Help button should be enabled.
inviteEnabled true true Enable invite option in menu.
iOSRecordingEnabled N/A false Enable recording in iOS.
iOSScreenSharingEnabled N/A false Flag indicating if screen sharing should be enabled in iOS.
androidScreenSharingEnabled true N/A Flag indicating if screen sharing should be enabled in android.
speakerStatsEnabled true true Flag indicating if speaker statistics should be enabled.
kickOutEnabled true true Enable kick-out option in video thumb of participants.
liveStreamingEnabled auto auto Enable live-streaming option in menu.
lobbyModeEnabled true true Flag indicating if lobby mode button should be enabled.
meetingNameEnabled true true Display meeting name.
meetingPasswordEnabled true true Display meeting password option in menu (if a meeting has a password set, the dialog will still show up).
notificationsEnabled true true Flag indicating if the notifications should be enabled.
overflowMenuEnabled auto auto Flag indicating if the audio overflow menu button should be displayed.
pipEnabled auto auto Enable Picture-in-Picture mode.
pipWhileScreenSharingEnabled false false Flag indicating if Picture-in-Picture button should be shown while screen sharing.
prejoinPageEnabled true true Flag indicating if the prejoin page should be enabled.
prejoinPageHideDisplayName false false Flag indicating if the participant name editing field should be displayed on the prejoin page.
raiseHandEnabled true true Enable raise hand option in menu.
recordingEnabled auto N/A Enable recording option in menu.
replaceParticipant false false Flag indicating if the user should join the conference with the replaceParticipant functionality.
resoulution N/A N/A Set local and (maximum) remote video resolution. Overrides server configuration. Accepted values are: LD_RESOLUTION for 180p, MD_RESOLUTION for 360p, SD_RESOLUTION for 480p(SD), HD_RESOLUTION for 720p(HD) .
securityOptionsEnabled true true Flag indicating if the security options button should be enabled.
serverURLChangeEnabled true true Enable server URL change.
settingsEnabled true true Flag indicating if settings should be enabled.
tileViewEnabled true true Enable tile view option in menu.
toolboxAlwaysVisible false false Toolbox (buttons and menus) always visible during call (if not, a single tap displays it).
toolboxEnabled true true Flag indicating if the toolbox should be enabled
videoMuteButtonEnabled true true Flag indicating if the video mute button should be displayed.
videoShareButtonEnabled true true Enable video share button.
welcomePageEnabled false false Enable welcome page. "The welcome page lists recent meetings and calendar appointments and it's meant to be used by standalone applications."

REMARK about Call integration Call integration on Android (known as ConnectionService) has been disabled on the official Jitsi Meet app because it creates a lot of issues. You should disable it too to avoid these issues.

JitsiMeetingResponse

Field Type Description
isSuccess bool Success indicator.
message String Success message or error as a String.
error dynamic Optional, only exists if isSuccess is false. The error object.

Listening to Meeting Events

Events supported

Name Description Params
onOpened Open event none
onClosed Closed event none
onConferenceWillJoin Meeting is loading. url
onConferenceJoined User has joined meeting. url
onConferenceTerminated User has exited the conference. url, error
onPictureInPictureWillEnter User entered PIP mode. message
onPictureInPictureTerminated User exited PIP mode. message
onError Error has occurred with listening to meeting events. error
onAudioMutedChanged Audio muted changed isMuted
onVideoMutedChanged Video Muted changed isMuted
onScreenShareToggled Screen share toggled participantId, isSharing
onParticipantJoined Participant joined email, name, role, participantId
onParticipantLeft Participant left participantId
onParticipantsInfoRetrieved Info participants participantsInfo, requestId
onChatMessageReceived Message chat received senderOd, message, isPrivate
onChatToggled Chat toggled isOpen

Per Meeting Events

To listen to meeting events per meeting, pass in a JitsiMeetingListener in joinMeeting. The listener will automatically be removed when an
onConferenceTerminated event is fired.

final JitsiMeetingResponse response = await JitsiMeet.joinMeeting(
  options,
  listener: JitsiMeetingListener(
      onOpened: () {
        debugPrint("JitsiMeetingListener - onOpened");
      },
      onClosed: () {
        debugPrint("JitsiMeetingListener - onClosed");
      },
      onError: (error) {
        debugPrint("JitsiMeetingListener - onError: error: $error");
      },
      onConferenceWillJoin: (url) {
        debugPrint(
            "JitsiMeetingListener - onConferenceWillJoin: url: $url");
      },
      onConferenceJoined: (url) {
        debugPrint("JitsiMeetingListener - onConferenceJoined: url:$url");
      },
      onConferenceTerminated: (url, error) {
        debugPrint(
            "JitsiMeetingListener - onConferenceTerminated: url: $url, error: $error");
      },
      onParticipantLeft: (participantId) {
        debugPrint(
            "JitsiMeetingListener - onParticipantLeft: $participantId");
      },
      onParticipantJoined: (email, name, role, participantId) {
        debugPrint("JitsiMeetingListener - onParticipantJoined: "
            "email: $email, name: $name, role: $role, "
            "participantId: $participantId");
      },
      onAudioMutedChanged: (muted) {
        debugPrint(
            "JitsiMeetingListener - onAudioMutedChanged: muted: $muted");
      },
      onVideoMutedChanged: (muted) {
        debugPrint(
            "JitsiMeetingListener - onVideoMutedChanged: muted: $muted");
      },
      onScreenShareToggled: (participantId, isSharing) {
        debugPrint("JitsiMeetingListener - onScreenShareToggled: "
            "participantId: $participantId, isSharing: $isSharing");
      },
      genericListeners: [
        JitsiGenericListener(
            eventName: 'readyToClose',
            callback: (dynamic message) {
              debugPrint("JitsiMeetingListener - readyToClose callback");
            }),
      ]),
);

Closing a Meeting Programmatically

JitsiMeet.hangUp();

Contributing

Send a pull request with as much information as possible clearly describing the issue or feature. Keep changes small and for one issue at a time.