Mute All Participants - Android

A host or moderator can mute every participant at once, for example before a presentation or when background noise distracts the room.

• Loop over room.participants and call disableMic() on each Participant.
• disableMic() is a suspend function, so call it from a coroutine. It throws a VideoSDKException if the server refuses the request.
• room.participants changes as people join and leave, so iterate over a copy of it.
• Skip AI agents: on an agent, disableMic() always throws UnsupportedOperationException.

btnMuteAllParticipant!!.setOnClickListener { _: View? ->
  lifecycleScope.launch {
    for (participant in room.participants.values.toList()) {
      if (participant.isAgent()) continue
      try {
        participant.disableMic()
      } catch (e: VideoSDKException) {
        Log.d("VideoSDK", "Could not mute ${participant.displayName}: ${e.code} ${e.message}")
      }
    }
  }
}

note

The participant who mutes other participants must have the allow_mod permission in their token. To know more about permissions visit here.

API Reference

The API references for all the methods and events utilised in this guide are provided below.

• disableMic()