On the web, on mobile and everywhere else

When we started Peer5 back in early 2012, I remember working with weird development browsers like the one from Ericsson(!). That was the only way to use WebRTC. We were so excited that it even worked and it all seemed super-hacky and unreliable. Chrome didn't add proper support until 2013. Then Firefox came.

Fast forward 4 years later, WebRTC is mature, very stable, performant and the browser support is excellent - Safari and even Edge have joined the WebRTC family.

We took advantage of it (muhaha) and now support all major browsers and all major video players. Basically, if you need peer-to-peer streaming on the web, we’ve got you covered. We were happy but increasingly received requests to support native apps. “The browser is great, but we want native too.”

So now we’re finally there. I’m thrilled to say that Peer5 is now ubiquitous - on web and native apps. Not only did we release the GA version of our Android SDK last week, we’ve also just announced new SDKs for Apple iOS, Apple tvOS, Google Chromecast, Amazon FireTV, LG WebOS and Samsung Tizen! Together with Android and Android TV, we now have 8 native SDKs available!! It’s also super easy to use these SDKs, similar to adding Peer5 on the web where you simply add two lines of JavaScript.

I'm very proud of our developers and excited to see peer-to-peer across all of these new platforms. Think how cool it is - Chromecast streaming a video from 15 different sources! An Apple TV, an Android phone and an Amazon FireTV Stick forming a mesh network! Yes, they all interop, and the performance is awesome!

Let me know if you want to play with any of these new SDKs and I’ll send you an invite. Happy new year again!