BBB client as a progressive web app (PWA)?

[David Zejda]

Sometimes I hear calls for a native client app. The reasons for the focus on the web client are understandable. But have you considered making the web client PWA? It might solve some headaches of less-digitally-literate users on mobile devices such as getting lost in browser tabs (including entering the conference room multiple times), unwanted interactions with the browser UI, etc. I think it should be relatively easy to satisfy the basic PWA requirements. The manifest and a basic JS service worker would probably do.

A follow-up question is how to deal with the cross-origin limitations of PWAs when the BBB client is sitting on a different domain than the web which integrates it. The challenge is elaborated here:  https://bit.ly/2NINsji .

David

[Fred Dixon]

Hi David,

We briefly looked at doing a PWA a few years ago, but didn't carry it much further.  This would be a great item if someone in the community wanted to try doing a proof of concept to see if it's feasible (and seeing if the cross-domain is something that can be worked around, especially for sites that host multiple BigBlueButotn servers).

Regards,... Fred

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[basisbit]

The big question most likely would be: Will a PWA on various android devices use the system browser (which often is old and has bad WebRTC support), or will it use the most current Chromium/Firefox engine somehow (where WebRTC works well nowadays)?

[maychine fatima]

Hello, 

 i tried the PWA for  BBB and it's working very well even the webrtc works well, just the problem is in ,  so the problem is when you wanna use the same PWA for different BBB that are in different servers.

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[sd...@distancelearning.cloud]

Do you have a open source repo with the PWA code?   Think it should be possible to extend this to work with multiple servers.

 

Would be interesting in learning what you have done.

 

Regards,

Stephen

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[Odejinmi Samuel]

  Hi All, 

 BBB works fine on PWA on my end and even on BigBlueButton 2.3-alpha7.

Find attached screenshot for proof.

Sorry, I did not give you a full shot.

Cheers

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