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Chromecast Sender App Android Implementation [google-cast]

I'm trying to implement Chromecast in a simple Sender App to cast a given Video. I've implemented the cast button and am able to connect to my device without error, but I'm not able to stream data. ...
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mediaRouteTheme not found

When I try to create a style as indicated by: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/android_sender_advanced#customize_cast_button like this: <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light....
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ConnectSDK doesn't try to find Chromecast

all. I try to create an android cast application with google chromecast. So I tryied to find chromecast with this code: public void startDiscoveringDevices() { DiscoveryManager.init(mContext); ...
Sergey Grishin's user avatar
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Chromecast Expanded Controller, Tracks Chooser dialog crashes the app after 11.0.2 update

When users want to change AUDIO Track, chromecast tracks chooser dialog crashes the app. It started to happen when "play-services-cast-framework" updates 10.2.6 to 11.0.2 Is it known bug? Or how do ...
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Chromecast not casting when waking from sleep

I'm building an app that wakes the phone from sleep and then starts casting. The way I've done is by making a BroadcastReceiver that start an activity like so WakeLocker.acquire(context); Intent ...
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Chromecast Sender v2.7.0 lockscreen image

How do we go about showing the lockscreen artwork for a chromecast sender app running v2.7.0. I have spent the best part of about 2 days on this without any resolution. The v2.7.0 library currently ...
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How to initialize CastContext outside of onCreate method

I would like to only activate the Cast feature due to certain criteria so I don't want any Cast logic in my onCreate. I have a setupCast method that has the following code: private void setupCast(...
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Google Cast icon doesn't show

I'm trying to integrate Google Cast on my application, but the cast icon doesn't show on my Toolbar. Here is the step what I've tried. Manifest.xml <meta-data android:name="com.google....
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How to determine if the user willingly disconnected from a Cast device?

When an Android app gets disconnected from a Cast device, Cast Companion Linrary's callback onApplicationDisconnected() is called to inform the app of the disconnection. But how can we distinguish ...
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Is there such a thing as too many chromecast devices on one network?

I have an app that uses the CastCompanionLibrary and I'm having a weird issue. On a small network with one chromecast device my application is able to detect it and show the MediaRouterItem. ...
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cast device discovery won't work with my application ID

I'm very new to the google cast sdk and I have registered a app on the cast developer console with a style media receiver. My idea is to send images to the chromecast device from an android ...
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understanding the manual for google cast companion library

[SOLVED] I did not have the same namespace on both ends. I have this manual page about the Google cast companion library and I don't understand the part about 'Support for data-centric applications' ...
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Chromecast-ing a WebView?

My current application uses a WebView to display HTML5 & CSS3 content (some animations). Is it possible to "cast" this WebView to a Chromecast, in effect, mirroring what is displayed on the main ...
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google cast sender app does not disconnect on first try

I integrated google cast support into my android application. I am able to connect and play video remotely with no problems. The only issue I seem to be running into intermittently is that sometimes ...
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cast button not showing up on Demo

I am running the demo from https://github.com/googlecast/CastVideos-android . It is dependent the library located here https://github.com/googlecast/CastCompanionLibrary-android The project is ...
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