Agora Cloud Recording Demo - Android

A quickstart guide on how to use the Agora Cloud Recording SDK to record all your video calls through your Android Application.

Prerequisites

• An Agora developer account (see How to get started)
• An AWS account
• Heroku account to deploy your backend
• VS Code
• A basic understanding of Flutter Development

Create an Agora account

To build and run this sample app, first create an Agora developer account over here

• After creating a project head on to the Project Management tab to create a new project.
• Choose secured mode for authentication and click on submit
• Next to your project and under the Action column click on the Edit button
• From this page copy your App Id, App Certificate and then scroll at the bottom and enable the cloud recording functionality.
• After this head on to the RESTful API section
• On this page click on Add a secret button to generate your Customer ID and Customer Secret. Save the value hence generated as we will be needing them when we deploy our server.

Setup your AWS S3 Bucket

Create an AWS account if you don't have it already.

• Head on to your AWS IAM Console, create a new user, and make sure that you add AmazonS3FullAccess policy with Programmatic Access.
• Once done copy your AWS Access Key and Secret Key to a text file.
• Create a new AWS S3 Bucket. Give it an appropriate name and copy the name to your clipboard so that we can use it later. If you already have a bucket you can skip this step.
• You will need to find out your region number (depending on your AWS server region), visit this table and click on Amazon S3 tab to see the list.

Deploying your backend

Before deploying ensure that you have acquired the following :

APP_ID=
APP_CERTIFICATE=
RECORDING_VENDOR=
RECORDING_REGION=
BUCKET_NAME=
BUCKET_ACCESS_KEY=
BUCKET_ACCESS_SECRET=
CUSTOMER_ID=
CUSTOMER_CERTIFICATE=

You can simply use this Heroku one click deploy to deploy your own backend to Heroku's server:

You can also look at the Postman documentation given over here to know more about the method calls

Setting it all up

Once you've deployed your own backend head on to the Constants.kt file and add your app id and channel name.

val appId = "my-app-id";

val channelName = "test" //Replace this with a channel name of your choice

And then head on to MainActivity.kt enter the baseUrl of your token server:

val baseUrl: String = "" // Enter the link to your token server

Resources

• You can find the complete API Documentation over here.
• I also invite you to join the Agora Developer Slack Community.