Subscribing to Other Clients' Streams
Finally, we want clients to be able to subscribe to (or view) other clients' streams in the session:
- Add a
subscriberproperty to the ViewController class:
The OTSubscriber class is defined in the iOS SDK. It uses the device's camera and microphone, to subscribe a stream Vonage Video session.
- Modify the implementation of the
session(_: streamCreated)method (one of the OTSessionDelegate callbacks) to include code to subscribe to other clients' streams the session:
When another client publishes a stream to a session, this method is called, and an OTStream object is passed in. The OTStream class is defined in the iOS SDK, and it represents an audio-video stream in the session. The code initializes an instance of the OTSubscriber class, defined in the iOS SDK. The OTSubscriber() constructor takes two parameters: The OTStream object (for the stream you want to view) and the object that implements the OTSubscriberDelegate protocol.
- Next we will implement methods of the OTSubscriberDelegate protocol. This protocol includes methods for handling events related to the subscriber. Add the following code to the end of the ViewController.swift file, after the closing bracket of the OTPublisherDelegate extension:
- When the client connects to the session, the
subscriberDidConnect(_:)method is called. - If the client fails to connect to the session, an OTError object is passed into the
subscriber(_: didFailWithError:)method.
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