The Skype.ui JavaScript function enables you to dynamically embed Skype URIs that have a pre-defined appearance and user interface similar to Skype buttons, but provides additional functionality, such as video, conference calls, and multi-chats.
The Skype.ui JavaScript function enables you to dynamically embed Skype URIs that have a pre-defined appearance and user interface similar to Skype buttons, but provides additional functionality, such as video, conference calls, and multi-chats.
Skype URIs enable developers to create innovative mobile, web, and desktop apps that initiate Skype calls and chats, enabling your users to reach their friends, family and businesses in a convenient yet familiar way. For example, if your mobile app presents a contact list that contains Skype names or phone numbers, your app can use a Skype URI to launch the official Skype client and initiate a call to a selected contact.
Skype URIs are the preferred mechanism for integrating with the Skype client, and are supported on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows (8, 7, Vista, XP), Linux and Mac OS X.
For a Skype URI to work, a Skype client must be installed on the user’s device, and the user must have an active Skype account. Certification of applications or webpages using Skype URIs is not required, since all interaction—specifically all audio and video—is through the Skype client.
Currently supported Skype URIs include:
- switching focus to the Skype client.
- initiating audio calls to other Skype users, phones, or mobiles—both one-to-one dialogs and multi-party conferences.
- initiating video calls to another Skype user.
- sending instant messages to an individual or establishing a group multi-chat.
