Apideo Documentation
Welcome in the Apideo Documentation! In this section, you will find anything you need to understand and develop an application with Apideo.
New to Apideo?
The overview will give you a broad developer-centric view of Apideo and what it can do for you.
The next step for you is to get a key, download the Apideo package, install it on your web server, and start coding!
Tutorials
We provide tutorials to help you getting started. Tutorials are organized by theme.
The first tutorial guides you through the basic step of setting up an Apideo application, and starting a simple video chat between 2 users.
The second tutorial will introduce you to event's handling. You will learn how to send and receive messages across browsers, and we will develop a simple chat application.
The third tutorial explains how to track users in real-time. For this tutorial, we will develop a mash-up application using Apideo, Google Maps and hostip.info. This tutorial will display in real time on the world map the position of users connecting to our web-site.
Reference
The Apideo Reference Guide is a complete description of the Apideo API. You can refer to it if you have any questions answered by the tutorials.
Finally, if you don't find your answers in the documentation, please be sure to check the forums and don't hesitate to drop us a message to let us know what is missing.
Overview
Apideo is an API you can use to put video into your website. Unlike YouTube that allows you to put recorded video in your website, Apideo is about live streams, like video chats for instance. Apideo is about putting users of your website together and letting them interact.
Apideo is a service, just like Google Maps. It is meant to be used by developers. End-users will use your web application but will not be using Apideo directly. In order to use Apideo, you (the developer) must first subscribe to get your Apideo key. This key will be used in your Javascript code in order to access the service.
The Apideo API is accessed from the browser, in Javascript. Therefore, you can integrate Apideo with any website, regardless of the website language. (PHP, Java, .NET, Ruby.... or even plain simple HTML files.!)
Apideo Keys are free for personal or development use, so do not hesitate and give it a try!
Architecture
Supported browsers
Apideo is compatible with most web browsers: Internet Explorer 6+, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari, provided a Flash Media Player is embedded.