Cheap Cast-Cast Chrome app brings also to other Android devices - tweakers.net

A developer has called Cheap Cast developed an application that makes the Chrome Cast functionality on other Android devices available, such as media players, Raspberry Pi’s and hdmi sticks. This is no longer necessary.

Chrome Cast a stick

Google introduced the Chrome Cast in July, costing a $ 35 dongle that can be. pricked in a hdmi input on a television Via a rotating Android smartphone, tablet or a Chrome browser on a laptop can be opened, such as a YouTube video. Content on the TV It is not a smartphone video sent to the Chrome Cast, the content is retrieved by the dongle directly on the internet. Moreover, in browser tabs of the Chrome browser open.

on TV

Google’s Chrome Cast-stick unreleased in Europe, making the dongle is temporarily available only in the U.S.. Moreover, the dongle is currently a limited number of useful services, such as YouTube, Google Play Movies, Netflix and Pandora. The German developer Sebastian Mauer has however developed called Cheap Cast software that Chrome Cast functionality is also available on other Android devices. This is especially interesting for Android devices with a TV output, such as media players, Raspberry Pi and hdmi sticks running Android.

Cheap Cast software is still in beta and can not synchronize browser tabs yet. This functionality is still under development. Currently, applications are already compatible with Chrome Cast, such as the YouTube app. The software requires at least Android 2.2.