{"id":2185,"date":"2020-07-29T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bap-software.net\/?post_type=bap-blog&#038;p=2185"},"modified":"2025-06-13T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:59:20","slug":"live-stream-app","status":"publish","type":"knowledge","link":"https:\/\/bap-software.net\/en\/knowledge\/live-stream-app\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Live streaming app? Some Popular live streaming apps on the market for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Live streaming app is emerging as a new application on social media that helps many people who can contact, and interact with each other without worrying about geographic location, time, and more. In this article, we will introduce to you the concept of live streaming app, some famous live streaming app, and the basic technical steps for creating a live streaming app.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>1. What is live streaming app?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Live streaming app has long\u00a0 become a famous word in the world,\u00a0 and which is considered as a real-time social networking service for everyone who can use and broadcast just with a single smartphone. On live streaming platforms, the distance between live stream audiences and livestreamer is not far, they can interact with each other on the internet in real-time for chatting, commenting,..<\/p>\n<p>Although you also can interact with live streamers on Youtube or Twitch via lIve broadcast, OBS studio, the main difference among them is that live streaming app makes audiences and users closer, and their interaction is more natural as well as quicker.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2. Popular lives reaming apps\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After understanding the Live streaming app, you should consider the top 5 popular live streaming apps on the market below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pococha<\/li>\n<li>17Live (Ichinana)<\/li>\n<li>MixChannel (Mixture)<\/li>\n<li>BIGO LIVE<\/li>\n<li>Live Dreamer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For each app above, we will go into detail to explain what makes them outstanding.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2.1. Pococha<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5590\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5590\" class=\"wp-image-5590 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/live-streaming-app.jpg\" alt=\"Live streaming app\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pococha App &#8211; Source: Dena<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a live streaming app owned by DeNA, and it is evaluated\u00a0 with positive feedback from users who are not professional in technology, which means that anyone can use it for live-streaming with ease.<\/p>\n<p>On this app, you can communicate with livestreamer for making friends, or talking with your acquaintances without worrying, so this is suitable for people who want to kill their time. And you can view every live-stream free, you just take registration with SNS for logging in, then using the app immediately.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pococha doesn\u2019t have a tossing system, instead, they provide a system that you can use items by spending coins, and do it to communicate with your partners, friends,..<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2.2. 17Live (Ichinana)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5592\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5592\" class=\"wp-image-5592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/live-streaming-app-comparison.jpg\" alt=\"Live streaming app comparison\" width=\"650\" height=\"733\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">17Live Application &#8211; Source: AllTechAsia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>17Live (Ichinana) is a live-streaming app developed in Taiwan, and now which is expanding in the world from Japan to East Southeast Asia like Hong Kong, Korea, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the functions of app such as registration, viewing, and live-stream that are free, and you just need to pay when you want to give for live-streamer as a gift. Besides, this app allows viewers who can support their favorite live-streamers in any ways.<\/p>\n<p>Especially, the age of users on this platform ranges from 20s to 30s that are suitable for you to play because they are more mature than other live streaming apps\u2019 users. There are many functions that you should take care of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Poke function- this means that it is created between live-streamer and viewers who just tap to give live on the screen.<\/li>\n<li>Marking and color changes functions &#8211; the mark will appear, and the color will change when you watch a live stream so much.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be honest, this is an easy live streaming application that helps to connect audiences and live-streamers in order to communicate with each other, or it can help live-streamer who can introduce products, service to customers. And vice versa, customers can find and ask questions about products, services to live-streamer (store, business,&#8230;)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2.3. MixChannel (Mixture)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5595\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5595\" class=\"wp-image-5595 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/live-streaming-app-overseas.jpg\" alt=\"Live streaming app overseas\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MixChannel app &#8211; Source: livernet.jp<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MixChannel is one of live streaming app via SNS, and this app just appears on the market recently. In addition, the app attracts a lot of targets include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University students<\/li>\n<li>High school students<\/li>\n<li>Junior High school students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moreover, the app is appreciated with positive feedback from users such as amazing app, too real, and too exciting. When using app, you cannot feel that you and your friends are far simply because this is so lively.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the app also gets famous for movie posting function that you can make full use of producing various kinds of videos like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twins<\/li>\n<li>Diet<\/li>\n<li>Dance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>2.4. BIGO LIVE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5598\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5598\" class=\"wp-image-5598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/what-is-live-streaming-app.jpg\" alt=\"What is live streaming app?\" width=\"650\" height=\"317\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BIGO LIVE app &#8211; Source: GG play<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the list of live streaming apps, we cannot ignore BIGO LIVE that is an famous live streaming app developed in Singapore. The app is viewed as one of the most popular live streaming app overseas when it has gained more 200 million users across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Although this app is not used by many Japanese, you can take advantage of speaking languages with foreigners, or even you can exchange the cultures from here.<\/p>\n<p>There are some main features of \u201cBIGO LIVE\u201d that you must know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can access live streaming in the world from Asia to Europe. South America, or many other countries.<\/li>\n<li>You can view the video 24\/24 that is suitable for Japanese people who are busy with daily heavy working.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will be an interesting live streaming app for use to watch in the fast-changing world.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2.5. LiveDreamer\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5593\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5593\" class=\"wp-image-5593 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/live-streaming-app-development.jpg\" alt=\"Live streaming app development\" width=\"650\" height=\"1128\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LiveDreamer app &#8211; Source: APKpure.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LiveDreamer is a musical app that helps musicians and music lovers who can transfer music, video, news, and other activities in this app. At present, the number of users are increasing, especially high school girls, college girls.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, this app is useful for even singers who don\u2019t need to have to prepare the costly location, or tickets for their show. On this app, they just need to make a live-stream for singing, or even if you are new singers who don\u2019t\u00a0 have a show to perform, you can use this platform for expressing your voice.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>3. BAP&#8217;s consulting when creating a live streaming app<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When it comes to live streaming app development, BAP always gives our customers consulting from the beginning to end of stage. Here, this is one of our recommendations when we build a live streaming app that we help customers who can solve Server overload problems.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstly, we select suitable livestream\u2019s birate in order to balance between video\u2019 quality and Server resources.<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, we also focus on avoiding spam call API on Server , and just call API in necessary cases. In order to do it, we must use operator of Rxjava2 such as debounce operator, distinctUntilChanged operator,..<\/li>\n<li>Next, in the system, we cache data to local database for frequently used data like users\u2019 information.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, we continue to cache data to Viewmodel for the short-term data storage like Live list.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, we create schedule to update data periodically that it doesn\u2019t change often in order to avoid Call API repeatedly.<\/li>\n<li>Using microservice to scale up when need easily<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5597\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/popular-live-streaming-app.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5596\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/live-streaming-app-processes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is our steps to treat Server\u2019s stage because it plays the key role in the success of live streaming apps, and we also show you how we apply it on IOS and Android:<\/p>\n<p>For IOS:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"383\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5594\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/live-streaming-app-for-ios.jpg\" alt=\"Live streaming app for ios\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For Android:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5588\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/how-to-create-a-live-streaming-app.jpg\" alt=\"How to create a live streaming app\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, we also want to introduce more stage of producing Live streaming app below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broadcast process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"451\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5591\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/live-streaming-app-broadcast-process.jpg\" alt=\"Live streaming app broadcast process\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Subscriber process:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"468\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5589\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bap-software.net\/2019\/08\/live-stream-app-subscriber-process.jpg\" alt=\"live stream app subscriber process\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the working processes above, we also suggest for customers with the extra techniques consist of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red5 Pro<\/li>\n<li>Agora.io<\/li>\n<li>Wowza + Radix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the techniques that BAP shows to customers when we partner with them to form a live streaming app, and we also give more ideas in each project in order to help customers&#8217; needs come true and more perfectly. 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