andreabreu-me / FlutterWebRTCDataChannel

A Flutter plugin allowing apps to use WebRTC DataChannel to establish P2P connection and exchange text messages.

Flutter WebRTC DataChannel plugin

This plugin allows Flutter apps to use WebRTC DataChannel to establish P2P connection and exchange text messages.

Install

Plugin dependency:

webrtc_data_channel: "^0.1.0"

WebRTC Android dependency:

rootProject.allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url  "https://google.bintray.com/webrtc"
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    api 'org.webrtc:google-webrtc:1.0.22672'
}

WebRTC iOS dependency:

pod 'GoogleWebRTC', '1.1.22642'

Usage

import 'package:webrtc_data_channel/webrtc_data_channel.dart';

// create DataChannel and connect to room
WebRTCDataChannel _dataChannel = new WebRTCDataChannel();
_dataChannel.connect(_roomUrl, _roomId);

// listen for messages
_receivedMessages = _dataChannel.listenMessages()
        .listen((String message) {
            // handle message
        });

// send message
_dataChannel.sendMessage(message);

// disconnect from room
_dataChannel.disconnect();

Server setup

This plugin use webrtc/apprtc as room server and signal server, you can use https://appr.tc/ or deploy it yourself, I've a Docker image for it, piasy/apprtc-server.

Development setup

• git clone https://github.com/Piasy/webrtc_data_channel
• flutter create -t plugin webrtc_data_channel
• cd webrtc_data_channel/example/ios && pod install