5 Worthwhile Features To Have Your Live Video Streaming App Excel

The world of entertainment is witnessing a seismic shift with new-age methods overtaking the conventional formats. Live video streaming app and OTT apps are reigning supremely due to various factors such as fresh content, immersive viewing experience, less hassle, easy-to-watch, among others. As an OTT video solutions provider, we keep exploring the latest developments to empower our clients’ offerings to the audiences.

In this article, we highlight the valuable features you should have in your live video streaming app to make it a success.

Signup

One of the most basic yet significant features to have in your live video streaming application is to enable users to create an account. Users can register on your application directly through phone, or email, or social media. Also, it is advisable to include a password reset feature via email or text message. 

Keeping the process crystal clear is a pivotal success factor of your application.

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Streaming

Streaming is the transmission of audio and video files from servers to users through various streaming protocols. Real-time messaging protocol or RTMP is one of the well-known protocols through which streaming takes place. The process is as simple as it sounds. A media player sends a connection request to a server. In response, the server sends a video file back that can be broadcasted to several users simultaneously. The only catch is the availability of high bandwidth on both ends.

Once you live stream something, you would not want your users to miss reliving the experience. For that, you will need to have storage to enable users to watch the broadcast after it has finished. Since it requires a large storage capacity, you should prefer cloud storage. Some of the scalable cloud storage options available are Amazon S3, DropBox, and OneDrive. 

Donation System

People who do live streaming earn mostly from donations rather than paid subscriptions. Users tend to donate when they love any broadcast. There is no fixed amount for donations as users can send money willingly. Moreover, users can share a message with their contributions and interact with the streamer. 

As a developer, if you are building a live streaming android app, you can rely on a third party tool or develop your own. Twitch uses Donation Alerts that accept payments from various methods, show statistics, and even announces messages in different voice tones. 

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Chatbox

One of the most intrinsic features of a live streaming app is chatting. It enables the live streamers to connect with their audiences, interact, share views, receive feedback, and much more. However, since the channel remains open only for subscribers, live streamers can make revenue through it. The monetization factor makes it a unique and most important feature in a live video streaming app. 

The chat has all kinds of interactive features to stay in touch with the paid subscribers. From unique chat emojis to chat status, it has everything. Since the live video streaming world is a dynamic one, a chat moderator is essential. For that, a live video streaming app developer can enable a moderator functionality to ensure the streaming experience runs smoothly. 

Privacy

Even the best of streamers may need some space after streaming for hours. At times, they would like to stream to specific users. Hence, privacy becomes a must-have feature in a live video streaming app. Adding the functionality of enabling streamers to stream to a particular person, a group of people, or only in a specific area can attract more streamers to your platform.

One such platform is Discord that provides the functionality of selective streaming. 

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Live Video Streaming App Development Tech Stack

If you are thinking about launching a live video streaming app or platform, you must include the above features for maximum engagement. Also, here is the tech stack that is required to develop such applications.

1. Programming languages: Swift, Kotlin, Java
2. Content delivery network: Cloudflare/Amazon CloudFront
3. Hosting: Amazon EC2
4. API server: Node.js
5. Media processing platform: DaCast, Wowza
6. Streaming protocols: WebRTC, RTMP
7. Database: MySQL, Oracle
8. Push notifications: Firebase Notifications
9. Messaging queues: AWS Simple Queue System

At Oodles, we have seasoned experience with the technologies to give our clients the best of it. With our expertise, we develop a robust application inclusive of all necessary features for maximum engagement. 

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