I’m planning to build a Zoom-integrated app where the frontend needs to reflect dynamic, participant-specific visual feedback — such as changing the border color around a participant’s video tile or adding a small label/badge to the participant card (e.g., “Verified”, “Flagged”, etc.).
I’ve reviewed the available SDKs, but I’m looking for clarification on the level of UI customization possible within the Zoom client itself, especially when using Zoom Apps SDK or Zoom Meeting/Video SDKs.
Key Questions:
Can I modify or overlay visual elements (e.g., border color, label) on each participant’s video tile inside the Zoom client via:
Zoom Apps SDK?
Meeting SDK?
Any plugin mechanism?
Is there any supported way to map a Zoom participant (via user ID or display name) to a UI element that represents their video tile inside the Zoom client?
If such customization is not possible inside the Zoom client, would building a custom application using the Zoom Video SDK be the only way to:
Render the participant video feeds in a fully custom UI
Control how each tile is displayed (color, label, border, etc.)
Sandip I’ve looked into something similar before. From what I’ve seen, the Zoom Apps SDK doesn’t currently allow direct UI modifications to the Zoom client itself, like customizing participant tiles. For full control over layout and visual feedback, the Zoom Video SDK is your best bet since it lets you render and style the video feeds however you want. Would love to hear if anyone’s found creative workarounds within the Meeting SDK though.
Welcome to the community.
If you want to “play around” with the video box, then you can to that using the ZOOM appsdk.
Use Camera Mode
This allows you to add html/css content into the window where their camera view is.
So for your need you would probably put a colored border around the window.