Chapter 7. Building a Real-time Communication Application – Pumpidu

In the previous chapters, you learned how to use Sencha Touch with the Cordova/PhoneGap application, how to use PhoneGap/Cordova plugins, and how to develop HTML5 mobile games with Phaser and wrap them with Cordova. Also, you learned how to integrate your mobile application with the custom service built with Node.js and how to add some social media functions to it. It is clear that PhoneGap/Cordova, as a platform, becomes more powerful when we use it with other web technologies.

In this chapter, we will revisit Node.js to implement the server side part for our application. Also, in this chapter, we will go through the process of developing video real-time communication / audio real-time communication web and mobile applications. For this, we will use the modern web browser's API named WebRTC. At the end of this chapter, we want to achieve a mobile application that calls another mobile or web client...