Getting Started with rounds Developers API

rounds is a flash-based social entertainment platform that challenges traditional video chatting methods by creating a beautifully designed, simple to use, and user friendly platform. It offers people a real place to meet, video chat, collaborate, feel close to one another, and to have fun together. By combining webcam chats, interactive activities and real-time games, rounds has managed to bridge the gap between the offline and online worlds in an entertaining, playful, fun and friendly experience.

Using rounds simple API, developers can quickly and easily transform their existing social activities and games into rounds video chat experience, or create new inspiring applications, both of which can leverage the platform’s inherent ability to deploy gifts, effects, and background themes into the video chat environment. Furthermore, the developers will soon have the opportunity to embed their activities in a stand-alone widget, anywhere across the web, which will allow even faster distribution of their products.

Developers are invited to create real-time multi-user rich activities through rounds API. They can incorporate their activities with video streaming and text chatting, sync users’ events and mouse movements, customize the user backgrounds and webcam effects, as well as use visual gifts to enhance the video chat experience. These features create a breathtaking experience for the users and prolong their interaction within the platform.

For developers to create very simple applications, it can take less than 15 minutes. From our testing, developers without prior knowledge of the system can use our API and create something in a very short amount of time. Of course, making more in-depth applications such as those that include complex game logic will take longer.

Furthermore, when a developer starts on an application and registers on rounds, he gets a kit of information which includes a readymade application that serves as a template that he can tweak and adjust accordingly.

Resources for Developers

The following categories provide guidance and support for developers. They include step-by-step tutorials, example applications as well as general resources for developers.

Tutorials

1. Register As a Developer
2. Using rounds Application Template
3. Local Testing for your multi-user application

Examples Applications

• Chat Translator Application – The Chat Translator Application allows users to chat in their chosen language and receive their opponents messages translated into their language.

• Logging Library – The Logging Library is an internal login utility which helps keep track on development in run-time.

Developers Center Resources

• Downloading rounds API
• API Documentation