CastReceiver

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About this app

CastReceiver is Screen Cast Receiver. It let you mirroring your android phone or your Chrome Tab to your any Android box running CastReceiver.
By CastReceiver you can easily share your Phone/Chromebook screen to your friendly or make presentation in meeting.
Use built-in Google Cast on your Phone/ChromeBook to enable screen mirroring. CastReceiver will appears in the receiver list alongside any Chromecast™ devices that may also be nearby. Simply select CastReceiver from the Cast receiver list and your Android device screen will begin mirroring!

Features:
1, Supports both tab casting and desktop casting which is built into all Chromebooks and all desktop platforms with Google Chrome browser.
2, Works with all Google Cast enabled Android devices without needing to install anything on the device.

Notes:
1, CastReceiver don't support streaming DRM protected content.
2, Not all Android Phone support Google Cast well. Please testing it using trial version.

Ratings and reviews

Works ok for what it is, but left more to be desired. Wish there was a way to turn on and off the receiver with a button in the app, or have a quick settings tile I can add to my notification pulldown. Uninstalled it because it kept turning itself on and popping up on my notification tray. I'll keep looking for another app that fits my criteria better, or I may come back to this later.

Brilliant app. 5 Stars on concept alone. This will basically turn your old phone with a 3.5mm headphone jack into a (now discontinued) Chrome cast Audio device. Keeping old devices usable is good for the environment (and my wallet). It is a little quirky overall (be sure to stop casting from an individual app when switching to a new one) and it can't be added to Google Home Speaker Groups which is not a a big deal at all. While playing audio the screen cannot be 'manually' powered off- however as long as the CastReviever app is running it will power the screen on automatically upon connection and then the screen will power off on its own with music still playing. Tested on a old device running Android 4.0 as well as one running Android 7.0. I couldn't get Sticher to cast on any device which is a bit of a bummer but I can confirm the Google Play Music app, the YouTube Music app and even the Amazon Music app all work just fine. You can even pause the playback on the Receiving phone with the Chromecast controls built into newer versions of Android and control the volume. You won't be able to control the casted media's volume from the casting phone however. The app is also great for House Guests and Parties: while there is no there is no "Guest Mode PIN" function while the Receiver phone was on my Guest WiFi my guests also on that Network could cast to it. In a way a phone with several audio apps and this app is better than a typical Chromcast Audio as users that don't have WiFi access (or don't have a phone) can use the Receiver phone "console" style to skip songs from the lockscreen from music apps like normal. Bought the premium version to help support the development of the app.

Slightly more usable than it used to be. It now shows up on the list of receivers in all apps but the only apps which can successfully stream to it are Prime Video and YouTube. Spotify gives an error page on the receiving phone then does nothing. Smart Audiobook Player is silent. MX Player, Musicolet and TuneIn Radio connect but can never successfully stream to it. Fix it please so I can buy it!

What's new

Improve compability.