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# August 6th RealTimeWeekly #241

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## **Real Time Weekly #241: August 6, 2018**

| Welcome to Real Time Weekly! The big news last week in the WebRTC ecosystem is the acquirement of TokBox by Vonage. In addition we have tutorials and articles from Pusher, PubNub, WebRTCHacks, Twilio and a WebRTC video tutorial from one of our readers! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are only shared with RTWeekly’s parent company, WebRTC.ventures Follow us at @RealTimeWeekly for the most “real-time” updates! Build an Android messenger app with online presence using Kotlin July 24 Pusher How to achieve user presence in real-time using Pusher. Create a IoT UV Index Monitor with Mobile iOS/Android Push Notifications July 30 PubNub Amazing example of how to integrate IoT devices and real-time SDKs. A playground for Simulcast without an SFU July 31 Webrtchacks Want to run Simulcast tests without a SFU? Here you have how to do it. WhatsApp — there’s an API for that Aug 1 Twilio Using the same SMS Twilio API, you can send messages to WhatsApp contacts. TokBox – now a part of the Vonage family Aug 1 TokBox The announcement of the week: TokBox was acquired by Vonage. Realtime Database triggers with Cloud Functions for Firebase \| Firecasts Aug 1 A video tutorial divided in three parts about how to use Firebase Cloud Functions to manage its real-time database. WebRTC Let’s learn together – Part 1 and 2 Aug 2 Amir Eshaq Amir shares with us his two video tutorials, made by him, about what he learned from WebRTC. Thanks Amir! Upcoming Events  Do you have a real-time related conference coming up? Tell us about it! Email german@webrtc.ventures to be included in this listing. OpenTok Hackathon July 16 – August 20, 2018 Join the HackToBox Slack group and jump to the #arlivevideo Slack channel to get started TADHack Global October 13 – 14, 201 14th Annual Real-Time Communications Conference, Expo & Hackathon Chicago, IL IIT RTC Conference – October 15 – 17, 2018 The Conference is located at IIT Hermann Hall 3241 South Federal, Chicago, IL 60616. IPTComm – October 16, 2018 QCon San Francisco, CA November 5 – 9, 2018 TADSummit November 13 – 14, 2018 AWS re: Invent conference November 26 – 30, 2018 If you know about any events worldwide please let us know emailing german@webrtc.ventures. Real Time Weekly is a free service of WebRTC.ventures. If you have been forwarded this by a friend, then please sign up at RealTimeWeekly.co so you never miss an issue! Please send tips or suggestions to German Goldenstein, editor,  german@webrtc.ventures.  |
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