Google Cast

Google LLC

About this app

Google Cast is a technology that enables multi-screen experiences and lets a user send and control content like video from a small computing device like a phone, tablet, or laptop to a large display device like a television.

This app includes Chromecast built-in for Android TV.

Available and pre-installed only on Google approved Android TV devices.

Ratings and reviews

Great idea. Implementation is rubbish. I have an Android media player (normal android, not the TV version - ie lots of apps, but all with a dreadful UI.) and it isn't available for it. So I bought a genuine Android TV media box, which has this built in, but almost no apps available. Had this app worked as well as my chromecast this would have been usable. However it only worked on about half the apps I tried (which all work fine on a real chromecast). It also doesn't allow Dolby Digital 5.1 output on the optical port. I will be returning the new Android TV device for a refund.

Chromecast built-in is broken. App casting like YouTube and Netflix works because you can get around it by having the same accounts, but anything on the local network wont work. Philips 43" (43PFL5604/F7) casting doesn't work after uninstalling the updates/forcing an update/ rebooting/ or factory reset. I've spent 2 whole days trying to get it to work with nothing. Chromecast (2 hours in a text conversation and 1 hour in voice call) or Philips (1 hour in voice call and 2 hours on hold collectively) support doesn't even know what the issue is. Hoping that the next major version of Android TV the issues

Reply: Thank you for your reply. Since by resetting the app's data and cache youtube's chromecasting restores (only for the problem to emerge again a couple of hours later), I am pretty sure that there is nothing wrong with my router or anything else. I repeat that other apps (Google Photos, Netflix, TuneIn, Google Play etc.) are chromecasting wthout any problem. There are multiple threads and posts in avforum and sony community where people are reporting the same problem AFTER THE LATEST UPDATE. People that never updated to the latest version have not this youtube chromecasting issue.