100ms gives you managed WebRTC rooms without building media infrastructure. The work is in the parts around the call: who gets a token, which role they join with, what happens on a bad network, and how a session is recorded or streamed.
Rooms · Tokens · Recording · RTMP · HLS · Waiting rooms
The app secret must never ship inside the Flutter build. Your backend creates a room and issues a short-lived token containing the room id, user id and role — host, viewer, moderator or guest.
That token is also where authorisation lives. If the app can request any room id, it can join sessions the customer did not pay for.
The join flow needs camera and microphone permission handling, a preview, device selection and a waiting room for host-approved sessions. Rotation, backgrounding and incoming calls all interrupt a mobile video session and need to be handled.
The best integration is the one where a failed permission or a dropped connection leaves the user with a clear next step.
100ms supports server-side recording, RTMP/HLS live streaming and simulcast. That makes it suitable for classes, webinars, telemedicine and paid sessions, not just one-to-one calls.
For poor connections, audio-only fallback and lower video layers keep the session usable instead of freezing it.
Webhooks for room started, ended, recording ready and participant joined give you an audit trail. Attendance, duration and recording URLs belong in your database, not only in the vendor dashboard.
Moderation tools — mute, remove, lock room — and a support path for failed joins matter as soon as real customers use it.
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100ms bundles the room UX and recording/streaming features, Agora is a large managed media platform, and LiveKit gives more control if you self-host. The right choice depends on recording, regions, moderation, pricing and how much infrastructure you want to own. I can build against whichever fits.
Yes. The app secret and token signing belong on the server, and webhooks for room and recording events need somewhere to land.
Yes. Audio-only is useful for low bandwidth, voice rooms and calls where video adds nothing. The join and token flow stays the same.
100ms offers server-side recording and live streaming, but they are product features with their own configuration, storage and consent requirements. I wire them into your backend and show the customer what is being recorded.
