

You can use Avia for free if all you want to do is play videos on your Android device.

Or you can tap the Chromecast button and stream content to your TV. But it also supports Playlists, and unlike AllCast, you can use Avia as a standalone media player to simply watch videos on your Android device. Like AllCast, Avia supports photos, videos, and music. Now that the Google Cast SDK is available to all, so is AllCast. He started building AllCast before Google even released a final SDK and eventually wound up launching the app at a time when it could officially support pretty much everything but Chromecast. AllCast Premium has a $5 price tag (although it’s not available for download as of February 17th, 2014).ĭeveloper Koushik Dutta was among the first to start working on apps that would stream local content to a Chromecast device. The only catch is that you can only stream up to the first 60 seconds of a video using the free app. You can use on-screen buttons to pause, play, stop, or skip ahead or back in a timeline. Just fire up the app, browse your media collection, and pick a file you want to send to your TV. It also supports streaming music, movies, and photos to a Roku, Apple TV, Xbox 360, Xbox One, WDTV, select Samsung, Sony and Panasonic Smart TVs, and other devices that support DLNA.

This app doesn’t just let you stream local media to a Chromecast. Keep in mind that since these apps stream content from your phone or tablet, videos will stop playing if you turn off your mobile device. You can use them to watch home movies, downloaded videos, DVD rips, or just about anything else. Here are some of the first apps that let you stream local content from an Android device to a Chromecast-connected TV. But now that the company has released the Google Cast SDK, there are a growing number of ways to stream music, videos, and photos straight from your phone or table to your TV. When Google first launched the Chromecast there was no way to do that. But what if you want to stream home videos from your phone to a TV without uploading them to the web first? Google’s Chromecast may be designed to let you stream media from Netflix, YouTube Pandora, Google Play Music, and other internet media sites to a TV.
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