In the past few years, video chat applications like Houseparty have become quite popular around the world. These video chat applications allow users to communicate with each other from even a far distant place. Due to the growing popularity of these apps, many entrepreneurs are investing in the development of such apps. Starting with an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for your video chatting application is a good way to ascertain its potential in the market. Even the same idea was also adopted during houseparty app development. The following are the key MVP features that your video calling app should possess.
5 MVP features of a video chat
Registration/Login
User registration or login is one of the basic features of any chat application. While you have the option to leave registration for joining conferences as Zoom does, it lets you simply write your name to join a conference. But this is convenient for only occasional users, for regular users writing names repeatedly for every conference call can be irritating. Thus adding a registration process is compulsory for a seamless user experience. You can either allow users to register via emails or phones or let them sign in using their social media accounts like Houseparty application.
Contact List
Undoubtedly, a video chat app needs to offer a contact list to allow users to find their friends easily. The app should offer a search option that will allow users to find their friends by real name or nicknames. Further, the app should also be able to pull contacts from users’ phone contacts. Houseparty pulls contacts from users’ phone book as well as social media accounts, so users can find their friends quite easily.
Video/Audio Calling
Video calling is an essential ingredient for video chat mobile app development. Video calling should be in at least HD quality to provide great user experience and to enhance user engagement. Besides video calls, adding voice call features can make your app more attractive. By using voice calling users can connect with people and talk to them when video calling is not feasible.
Group Calling/Chatting
Although one-to-one calls are good, they aren’t sufficient today in case of video chat applications as people want to communicate in groups. So, the integration of group video calling will take your app to the next level. You can allow the number of people for group calling in your app depending on the target audience. You can add some important features for conference hosts such as inviting users, muting/unmuting users, blocking users, etc. You need to decide how many users your app will support in a conference call. Also, remember that allowing a large number of people in a conference call will increase the complexity of your mobile app development project.
Profile Management
After registering to your app, users need a way to manage their personal data. Usually, users want to manage their emails, passwords names, and other personal details. By providing a simple method for managing users’ personal data, you can keep things simple and sorted for users.
Wrapping up
The world is fast-changing and you need to adapt to the changes in technologies as it’s an optimal way to survive in this modern world. Gone are the days when conference calls were the only means for face-to-face discussions, today, we have varied video calling platforms like Skype, Google Duo, Houseparty, Zoom, etc, that make people-to-people video communication easier. If you are planning to build your own video calling application then starting with an MVP that includes the above MVP features can help you build the right product. You need to find the right mobile app development company to build a feature-packed video calling application.
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