Build a custom video chat interface
Daily's Client SDKs
Daily's Client SDKs are a direct line to the Daily API. They give you the finest-grained control over a video call, letting you access and manipulate its lowest-level foundations, like participant video and audio tracks. Accessing these call primitives gives you precise control over where to place each element in your app. It leaves the video call UI entirely up to you.
Daily provides client SDKs for a variety of platforms:
- Client SDK for JavaScript
- Client SDK for React
- Client SDK for React Native
- Client SDK for Android
- Client SDK for iOS
Daily's Client SDKs are the best choice when you need to build a completely custom video or audio-only chat experience.
Key features
Below is a list of reference docs and guides for key features that are often implemented with the client SDKs. For additional resources, see the Daily blog for tutorial content, as well as Daily's guide index.
- Screen sharing
- Active speaker and grid layout modes
- Text chat
- Participant list
- Network analytics display
- Localized interfaces
- Recording
- Live streaming
- HIPAA compliance
Demo apps and tutorials
We've created a number of demo apps and tutorials that showcase how to use Daily's JavaScript Client SDK to build a completely custom app UI. Demos range across different frameworks, feature sets, and use cases.
- Introduces the fundamentals of Daily's JavaScript Client SDK
- Demonstrates how to build a custom multi-participant video call UI with a control panel for managing local devices and screen sharing
- Includes a prejoin UI with device management before joining the call
- Uses Daily React, which we recommend for all React apps using Daily
- Tutorial series available
- The same feature set is available in alternate frameworks, such as:
Spatial audio and video app demonstrating a virtual world where users can move towards others to join conversations. Tutorial series available
Clubhouse clone (audio-only app)
More demos
Additional demo apps can be found on our demos page and our Daily demos GitHub page.
More tutorials
For a fuller list of available client SDK tutorials, see the Daily blog's section on custom apps
Client SDK features
Daily's Client SDKs provide developers with a full suite of customizations for building video or audio-only apps.
- Customizable video chat interface
- Direct access to video and audio track data
- Ability to create custom video and audio tracks
- Built-in bandwidth management
- Cross-browser compatibility
- Electron compatible
- Compatible with React Native
HIPAA pricing
Building a HIPAA compliant video chat with Daily is available with the Healthcare add-on, and involves a few additional steps to set up. Read our HIPAA guide and pricing page for more information.