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Providing anonymity on customer service calls using HAQM Chime Proxy Phone Sessions

If you’re a company that provides customer service via phone where you engage a specialist for consultation with a customer, you are connecting two individuals for a limited amount of time. Unless you use masked phone numbers to connect those individuals, they may be required to share their personal phone numbers. We hear customers say […]

How to Integrate Apple’s CallKit into iOS Applications Using the HAQM Chime SDK

Apple’s CallKit is a framework introduced with iOS 10. It gives users the ability to handle VoIP calls from third party apps, such as Skype, similar to how they would handle a system phone call. If your iOS application is currently using HAQM Chime SDK without Apple’s CallKit, you will notice that in-application audio cannot be started […]

Building a Meeting Application on iOS using the HAQM Chime SDK

The HAQM Chime SDKs for iOS and Android provide application developers native choices to add audio calling, video calling, and screen share viewing capabilities to their mobile applications. Developers can use the same communication infrastructure that powers HAQM Chime, an online meetings service from AWS, to deliver engaging experiences in their applications. This post demonstrates how to use the […]

Comcast Business offers AWS video conferencing solution to Small and Medium Businesses

Comcast Business is offering businesses HAQM Chime Pro services free until October 31, 2020. With HAQM Chime, Comcast Business provides enterprise-grade online meetings and video conferencing without requiring an HAQM Web Services or Comcast Business account for the trial. HAQM Chime Pro from Comcast Business is a unified communication service to meet, chat, and collaborate […]

Building a Meeting Application on Android using the HAQM Chime SDK

We introduced HAQM Chime SDKs for iOS and Android to supplement the HAQM Chime SDK for JavaScript. This provides application developers native choices when integrating audio, video, and screen share sharing sessions into their own applications. In addition to providing methods to access the HAQM Chime SDK media services and local audio and video devices, the HAQM Chime […]

Customers like Slack choose the HAQM Chime SDK for real-time communications

HAQM Chime is a meetings and video conferencing service. Developers can use the same communications infrastructure to add audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities directly to their applications using the HAQM Chime SDK. Since the launch of the HAQM Chime SDK at re:Invent 2019, many of our customers have been using the SDK to embed […]

Mask user phone numbers using HAQM Chime proxy phone sessions

On April 6, we released HAQM Chime proxy phone sessions. Developers can now easily enable two users to call or text for up to twelve hours, without requiring users to share their personal phone numbers. Instead of reaching each other using personal phone numbers, they use a number provided on demand by HAQM Chime proxy phone […]

Understanding Security in the HAQM Chime Application and SDK

Workers and teachers around the world increasingly rely on HAQM Chime and other services that enable remote working and distance education. As their usage has increased, so has scrutiny of security practices. Customers want to be sure that the content of their meetings and classes is accessible only to those intended to have access. This […]

HAQM Chime SDK adds Content Share and Support for Safari Browsers

Today, AWS announced the latest version of HAQM Chime SDK for JavaScript, Version 1.2.1 (available on npm and GitHub). This new version fully supports the Safari versions 13.0 and above. This update enables users of applications built with the HAQM Chime SDK to share screens or application windows from Safari browsers (previous versions of the […]

Best practices for remote work using HAQM Chime

COVID-19 is affecting just about every aspect of our lives including how we work or learn. Many employees and students are working from home who haven’t in the past and while being at home might have some benefits such as more family time, it is important to pay attention to technology, environment, and etiquette best […]