Developer Platform updates Spring 20'
As we spring into action in 2020, our developer platform will be delivering more features to enhance your developer experience. Within this blog we’re highlighting new features that were recently released for our developer platform as well as giving you a preview of what’s to come with our roadmap.
What’s new on our Developer platform
Marketplace
- Developer Dashboard — Will show metrics to let app developers know how well their app is being used amongst their customers. This will include metrics such as installed user/account count, API usage, total breakdown of subscribers for webhooks.
- Dynamic App Support — Allow developers to choose which scopes are mandatory and which are optional. Correspondent OAuth page shall present visible difference between mandatory and optional scopes.
SDK
- Microsoft Edge Support — Our WebSDK now supports features on Microsoft Edge(Chromium) such as video & VOIP.
- Chat Privileges — We’ve Enhanced chat privileges for meeting hosts to allow participants to chat with everyone publicly or privately for WebSDK.
- Xcode 11 Support — We’ve added support for Xcode 11 within the iOS SDK.
API
- New Rate Limits — Demand for our APIs have been growing so fast, we had to revamp the way we handle our rate limits so we can scale for all of our customers and still provide our world-class REST API experience for developers and customers! Read all about the new V2 REST API Rate Limits!
- Chat Webhooks — To go along with our existing Chat APIs, we have introduced new chat webhooks such as being able to receive notifications when a chat message is sent, updated, or deleted, receiving notifications when a channel is created, updated or deleted. As well as receiving notifications when a channel member has joined or left.
For a list of recent updates and changes, refer to our Marketplace Changelog and Developer Forum New Release page
What’s upcoming on our Roadmap
Upcoming
- Security Enhancements across all platforms — With the recent announcement within Zooms blog about our feature freeze initiative, we will be focusing on enhancing our security within all of our developer platforms with new features such as the Security tool icon and more.
- End of Life for ALL V1 APIs — Due to the COVID-19 situation, we have extended our EOL for v1 APIs to May 31st, 2020, afterwards, Zoom is terminating the V1 API FOREVER! If you are using ANY Zoom APIs that DO NOT have “/v2” in the path, then you are using V1 APIs, and after May 31st, 2020 these will no longer work. Check out our blog Your guide to Migrating from V1 to V2 APIs to learn how to prevent any potential business disruption or loss of data.
- New Zoom Phone, Chat, Room APIs & Webhooks — We announced that we were delivering more Zoom Phone, Chat, and Room APIs and webhooks at last years Zoomtopia and we’re going to deliver more such as new Chat Message & Chat Channel APIs, Zoom Phone Webhooks for caller ringing & call logs.
- New Webinar Support for WebSDK — We will be closing the feature gap from our Native client by introducing features such as being able to join a webinar as a host or panelist and joining a webinar as a registered attendee.
- Embed WebSDK — With the increase of users using Zoom and our SDKs, we will be focusing on delivering a Javascript based framework to safely embed our WebSDK into your website without the use of iframes.
You can also use these resources to have some visibility into the Zoom Roadmap between newsletters: Marketplace Upcoming Changes page & and our Zoom Developer Roadmap
If you’re excited about all the news with our developer platform, head over to Zooms marketplace so that your app or integration will benefit from the changes!