| name | zoom-video-sdk-macos |
| description | Zoom Video SDK for macOS native desktop apps. Use when building custom macOS video sessions
with native UI control, tokenized join, and desktop-oriented media/device workflows.
|
| triggers | ["video sdk macos","zoom video mac","macos custom video","mac desktop video sdk","video sdk cocoa"] |
Zoom Video SDK (macOS)
Use this skill when building custom macOS desktop video session apps.
Current release: 2.6.0 (verified 2026-07-10). The bundled inventory below is 2.5.10.
Review renamed statistic/audio APIs, framework removal, external-source changes, and new
callbacks in the 2.6.0 upgrade notes.
Start Here
- macos.md
- concepts/lifecycle-workflow.md
- concepts/architecture.md
- examples/session-join-pattern.md
- scenarios/high-level-scenarios.md
- references/macos-reference-map.md
- references/environment-variables.md
- references/versioning-and-compatibility.md
- troubleshooting/common-issues.md
SDK-Bundled API Skill
Video SDK macOS 2.5.10 includes Docs/skills/zm-videosdk-macos-api/SKILL.md and paired Docs/*-API.md / Docs/*-API.json references.
- Use this repository skill for architecture, implementation workflow, scenarios, and troubleshooting.
- Use the bundled skill and
Docs/index.md to verify Objective-C signatures, asynchronous completion, role requirements, callback threading, and object lifetime.
- Prefer packaged headers over generated documentation if they conflict.
- For RTMS signaling, media sockets, protocol messages, and backend processing after
ZMVideoSDKRTMSHelper starts the stream, chain to zoom-rtms.
- See references/macos-reference-map.md for high-value modules.
Key Sources
Operations
- RUNBOOK.md - 5-minute preflight and debugging checklist.
