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PhoneGap By Example

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PhoneGap By Example

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
PhoneGap By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

WebRTC fundamentals


WebRTC is one of the most interesting inventions in the Web lately.

WebRTC (real-time communication) is an Internet protocol. It is an open source software designed to organize streaming data between browsers and other peer-to-peer connected applications.

Its inclusion in the W3C recommendation supports Google, Mozilla, and Opera. After the integration of WebRTC into Chrome (and possibly also in a number of other popular browsers), Google can compete with Skype. Third-party web developers can create their voice-/video-communication applications based on the technology WebRTC.

WebRTC is a collection of standards, protocols, and JavaScript API. This combination provides peer-to-peer audio, video, and data transfer between peers. WebRTC simplifies the work with the abstraction of JavaScript API.

It's not just client-server connection; it is a bit more complicated.

The main task of WebRTC is not only real-time communication between browsers. WebRTC was created with the idea of...