Does it bring up a phone and display apps as they would appear on a phone? Or do you just get a fullscreen, list of apps etc? I just basically want a bigger, 1 to 1 direct display of my phone on the screen for demonstrating and testing apps. Anyone know if this is possible with Chromecast?
Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast
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Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast
#42Does it bring up a phone and display apps as they would appear on a phone? Or do you just get a fullscreen, list of apps etc? I just basically want a bigger, 1 to 1 direct display of my phone on the screen for demonstrating and testing apps. Anyone know if this is possible with Chromecast?
I use a £15 thing I got from eBay that does Miracast and DNLA and outputs HDMI, the phone/tablet sends over WiFi.
It is a direct mirror of the screen scaled up.
The Chromecast is twice the price.
I use mainly it to watch YouTube stuff with my gran when I visit her.
Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast
#43Will this let me broadcast my device screen to my laptop, asked everyone who's ever given a presentation on Android app development ever? (serious question)
If your device is rooted, there's a number of VNC servers that'll let you do that.
Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast
#44Both my TV and my HTC One have Miracast support so i had this working a couple of months ago, making the connection is very unreliable though, so i hope the Chromecast can improve this. A general thing is that as more and more devices become "smart" in terms of features and protocols etc, it becomes more and more apparent to me how bad the software is on many of these devices. My TV and my router are just some recent…
I think there's a huge startup opportunity somewhere in building reliable, stable router software with a slick webinterface built in Bootstrap (without framesets).
Of course, there's the Apple Airports that have excellent stability and UI, and while I have one and far better than any router I've owned, it doesn't do stuff like VPN.
Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast
#45Will this let me broadcast my device screen to my laptop, asked everyone who's ever given a presentation on Android app development ever? (serious question)
We have always been using AShot successfully till now, though the name is misleading, it basically streams the Android screen to your laptop, try it http://sourceforge.net/projects/ashot/
Hmm - this is basically transmitting screenshots via the Android SDK, right? If so, then yeah, I've been using a similar library called droidAtScreen. I just wish there was a simple way to broadcast Android to a PC at full framerate, a la iOS' Airplay...
Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast
#46Does it bring up a phone and display apps as they would appear on a phone? Or do you just get a fullscreen, list of apps etc? I just basically want a bigger, 1 to 1 direct display of my phone on the screen for demonstrating and testing apps. Anyone know if this is possible with Chromecast?
I use a £15 thing I got from eBay that does Miracast and DNLA and outputs HDMI, the phone/tablet sends over WiFi. It is a direct mirror of the screen scaled up. The Chromecast is twice the price. I use mainly it to watch YouTube stuff with my gran when I visit her.
What's this £15 thing called? I'd like to get one.
Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast
#47Both my TV and my HTC One have Miracast support so i had this working a couple of months ago, making the connection is very unreliable though, so i hope the Chromecast can improve this. A general thing is that as more and more devices become "smart" in terms of features and protocols etc, it becomes more and more apparent to me how bad the software is on many of these devices. My TV and my router are just some recent…
I think there's a huge startup opportunity somewhere in building reliable, stable router software with a slick webinterface built in Bootstrap (without framesets). Of course, there's the Apple Airports that have excellent stability and UI, and while I have one and far better than any router I've owned, it doesn't do stuff like VPN.
I have a MikroTik router (http://www.mikrotik.com/) and it's amazing. They expose configuration knobs through three almost-equal interfaces: a custom shell over SSH, a web interface and a Windows application.
That thing never stops, once it's set up you forget its there and only have to reboot it to update the software (which happens around once a month and it's an event you can skip if it contains no security patches).
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#48Does it bring up a phone and display apps as they would appear on a phone? Or do you just get a fullscreen, list of apps etc? I just basically want a bigger, 1 to 1 direct display of my phone on the screen for demonstrating and testing apps. Anyone know if this is possible with Chromecast?
I use a £15 thing I got from eBay that does Miracast and DNLA and outputs HDMI, the phone/tablet sends over WiFi. It is a direct mirror of the screen scaled up. The Chromecast is twice the price. I use mainly it to watch YouTube stuff with my gran when I visit her.
Twice the price! Daylight robbery.
Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast
#49Both my TV and my HTC One have Miracast support so i had this working a couple of months ago, making the connection is very unreliable though, so i hope the Chromecast can improve this. A general thing is that as more and more devices become "smart" in terms of features and protocols etc, it becomes more and more apparent to me how bad the software is on many of these devices. My TV and my router are just some recent…
I think there's a huge startup opportunity somewhere in building reliable, stable router software with a slick webinterface built in Bootstrap (without framesets). Of course, there's the Apple Airports that have excellent stability and UI, and while I have one and far better than any router I've owned, it doesn't do stuff like VPN.
Ubiquity's EdgeMax is a reliable, stable, and inexpensive router that I have started to roll out all customers. EdgeOS is a fork and port of Vyatta 6.3 (think Junos) and is under constant development with a great beta program. Their devs are active on their corporate forum and are open to suggestions and support.
Some features that I have used and like: - Solid hardware - Debian based base OS - Nice Web Admin for common tasks like port forwarding, FW, routes, etc. - Stable VPN - Advanced VLAN configs - Class-based QoS with shaping - DHCP snooping - Port mirroring
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#50Reminds me of www.tinystic.com ,Tinystic promises to deliver the same thing and allow you to use your phone as a computer, video game, movie playing device, etc.