3 posts tagged with "Media"

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to record and play audio in React Native apps. We are going to build a simple screen that supports features such as recording audio, playing audio files, pausing and resuming, as well as resetting audio streams.

In this article we are going to take a look at how to compress videos in React Native as well as general media, such as photos or audio content. It’s standard practice to compress the full size of raw images/videos before they are sent to be stored on the server in order to conserve storage cost, but most importantly to improve the user experience by an order of magnitude.

Giphy is the largest library providing one of the most popular forms of media widely used for chatting – GIFs or Graphics Interchange Format and stickers. The most popular social media apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Slack, Skype and Twitter (to mention a few) use Giphy’s technology to provide GIF content and Stickers for their chat users to improve the chatting experience. At Instamobile, we’ve added Giphy integration into all of our chat apps, so we’re going to describe our experience of integrating the Giphy API into any React Native app.