Linphone is an open-source softphone for both voice and video over IP calling and instant messaging. Linhone is everywhere now where we can call using the internet with no call cost. It is wholely depends SIP-based for calling, presence and IM features. There are many apps out in the world that are built using Linphone. These Linphone VoIP solutions now came with a new release of Linphone 4.2 for both Android and iOS.
This new release of Linphone brings significant enhancements in both cross-platform source code of Liblinphone library and also of the Android and iOS Linphone applications. Let’s see in-depth about the new release of Linphone 4.2 for Android and iOS apps:
New things about Linphone 4.2 version
- Size: The size has been reduced via robust code refactoring both Liblinphone size, cross-platform VoIP library. For instance, Linphone Android app size has been reduced from 38Mo to 18Mo, which enables or disable main features such as Video calling or instant messaging. At compilation time the produced object code is reduced to a large extent.
- App Performance: In order to reduce startup time, the overall Linphone app performance has been enhanced which makes sure that all the incoming calls are more timely and reliably notified even if the app is closed or working in the background.
- Authentication: Previous there was only md5 algorithm that supports users’ password authentication. But now there is SHA256 cryptographic hash algorithm was implemented for digest users’ password authentication. Now in this new Linphone version, either of the algorithms can be used for authentication. By default, the SHA256 algorithm will be in the Linphone mobile apps.
- Libraries: Linphone Android uses AAudio, which is a lightweight native Android alternative to the OpenSLES library and Camera2, which is more widely use featured framework for controlling camera devices connected to any Android devices if available.
Linphone Android: To build Linphone Android, the default way is to download the AAR SDK in the Maven repository. Once the SDK was downloaded, open the project in Android Studio and wait for the Gradle synchronization to build the app. It will download the linphone library from maven repository everything will be built by itself.
Linphone iOS: CocoaPods are used as default to build Linphone-iPhone apps which are used to retrieve the Linphone SDK frameworks. The SDKs are downloaded from Gitlab repository, so you don’t have to make anything by yourself. Then open the linphone.xcworkspace file with XCode to build and run the app.
Conclusion
Linphone is something which made the way of calling either it is video or audio calls either of it is available for free of cost. These days Linphone is available for everyone for the development of both Android and iPhone app.
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