Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#1

Post by prashantv » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 3:37 AM UTC

Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast
chrome.blogspot.com

Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#2

Post by jahmed » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 3:51 AM UTC

Seriously this is awesome. Its magical. No wires no configuration. I just got home, tried it, and it worked.

Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#3

Post by fenomas » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 4:29 AM UTC

Will 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)

Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#4

Post by nnutter » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 4:32 AM UTC

"these things came to iOS two, maybe three years ago"

Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#5

Post by delbel » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 4:33 AM UTC

fenomas wrote: post #3

Will 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)

Not sure, but you can screencast your WebViews from your Android device with Chrome Remote Debugging: https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/remote-debugging#...

Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#6

Post by lelandbatey » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 4:37 AM UTC

The use cases they list (images and google maps) are great for static or slow loading sources. Does this work for video? Can I stream video that's playing on my phone to the Chromecast and have it look decent? Because that'd be amazing and I would be extremely happy!

Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#7

Post by nospecinterests » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 4:38 AM UTC

Well that kinda takes the wind out of the sails of the cyanogenmod peeps. I wonder what the quality is. Anyone know if it will have decent frame rates?

Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#8

Post by hughdbrown » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 4:54 AM UTC

Now if ChromeCast would only reliably work with my Linux machines.

Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#9

Post by sandesh247 » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 5:04 AM UTC

This is much smoother than I thought it would be. Even full screen youtube videos seem to have a passable framerate. Too bad the audio doesn't work.

Edit: Yep, restarting did the trick. Have media apps without Chromecast support suddenly become Chromecast capable? This is pretty awesome.

Edit 2: Why yes, yes they have! Now if only I could stream audio only ...

Re: Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast

#10

Post by kelnos » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 5:09 AM UTC

nospecinterests wrote: post #7

Well that kinda takes the wind out of the sails of the cyanogenmod peeps. I wonder what the quality is. Anyone know if it will have decent frame rates?

I'm confused... this feature has been available in CM11 nightlies for at least a month now (Nexus 4 here).

Frame rate seems good enough for YouTube, though audio stopped working (didn't get sent to the ChromeCast, and wouldn't play on the device either) while the video was playing.