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#117-How to Adjust the Volume in an Agora Video Call

In developer meetups, people who develop real-time communication apps often come to us and ask questions regarding volume adjustment. We also receive a lot of inquiries regarding this issue through our mail. In a video call, volume adjustment is required because different people have different levels of volume sensitivity. The same level of volume may be too low or too high for a section of users. It never leads to good user experience, when users desperately search for an option and don't get it. In addition to presenting users the options they admire, it is the responsibility of a video chat app developer to ensure the app they are developing is accessible to people of partial hearing disability. Providing a volume adjustment option means those people will be able to increase the playback volume to a level that suits them. A third reason that necessitates this option is sometimes people might hear noise during video chat. Noises , defined by experts...

#116-Exploring the Agora Dashboard

There is a buzz in the silicon valley and beyond. A new real-time communication technology has arrived that will take us lightyears ahead in terms of speed, scale, and performance. In developer meetups, you will never meet one who has not been impressed by this platform's features. The name is Agora, agora.io. For around five years, it has been the talk of the town as far as real-time audio and video engagement is concerned. Developers have expressed great satisfaction over the platform's features, more specifically the way it exposes them to developers who build apps on it. One important metric that determines whether a platform will last for a long time is developer satisfaction. We are going to explore the Agora dashboard to understand what is it that makes this platform every developers' first choice in RTC. A search of the phrase "agora io dashboard" on google lists it as the first result. It ensures developers new and experienced can find it quickly on go...