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Would like a Cast / ChromeCast plugin for Flutter #18212
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The Cast team received a request for Flutter support in https://issuetracker.google.com/80453460. It's not clear that adding such would require any work to the Android or iOS Cast SDKs, so I've filed this.
I suspect the desired solution here would be for someone to write a Cast plugin for Flutter, wrapping the iOS and/or Android Cast SDKs:
https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/developers
Flutter's plugin docs are here:
https://flutter.io/developing-packages/
And many examples here:
https://github.com/flutter/plugins
My understanding of the Cast SDK, is that different actions get casted differently. For example Videos use a separate path than sending screen-by-screen frames, etc. I'm not familiar enough with the details of the Cast SDK to know how much depth there is to such a plugin, or if to have "full support" will require any changes to the Flutter Engine or Framework itself.
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bostrot commentedon Jul 24, 2018
Any update on this?
eseidelGoogle commentedon Jul 24, 2018
No significant update. I've spoken with at least one member of the Cast SDK team. I've also now spoken with two teams inside Google who have at least mild interest in a Cast SDK plugin for Flutter existing, but I'm not aware of any engineers actively working on such.
Brahmasmi commentedon Jul 30, 2018
Based on my limited understanding of Google Cast, I do not know if there are changes required to the Flutter engine or the framework.
However, Cast has historically been a fairly fast moving target. It is current on v3 of the SDK. So I think the Cast plugin would be more maintainable in the long term if the Cast team themselves took ownership of it. If I could draw an analogy, it is similar to how Dart's gRPC implementation is better at home in the Protobuf org rather than the Dart org. The domain specs (Protobuf, gRPC) are more important than the language/framework specs.
Just my 2 <fiat_currency_unit/100>.
dlevesque1980 commentedon Oct 31, 2018
Hi,
This is a plugin I am doing about this. This is not complete, but at a working state. For now It is android only and I am not sure I will do the iOS part. I am a dotnet developer with no experience in Android and iOS. Doing this in Kotlin is already a huge learning curve. The code is MIT license feel free to fork.
https://github.com/dlevesque1980/cast
ngocdaothanh commentedon Nov 12, 2018
Hi, is there any update about this feature?
I've just bought a Chromecast (latest generation), and I'm really excited to write a Flutter app to cast. My main use is casting audio from iOS.
snaeji commentedon Nov 28, 2018
This would be a great feature!
stateanomaly commentedon Dec 10, 2018
I agree. My client is definitely looking for this ability. Considering React Native because it already has a package for this.
snaeji commentedon Dec 18, 2018
I would really like to see this as a goal... It's the most requested feature we have for our app.
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ott-web commentedon Feb 21, 2019
Is this request really 9 months old? We should be able to do this pretty easily as a community.
dlevesque1980 commentedon Feb 22, 2019
There is android plugin I made there. https://github.com/dlevesque1980/cast
For the IOS part I don't the apple license to do it. But If someone is interesting in doing it. My pleasure to help.
wilsharo commentedon Mar 12, 2019
Hi. I see a lot of people have been wanting this feature. So just want to inform you that a developer implemented casting purely in dart and has an example to use it below.
https://github.com/terrabythia/flutter_chromecast_example
However that example is a little outdated and doesn't work as is. Well I'm glad to inform you that I was able to make some updates to the example project and their dart_chromecast package in order to get this working. I also added controls to play, stop, pause, and fastforward/rewind videos. And best of all it works for both Android and iOS!
Credit should go to terrabythia. But I hope my example helps.
https://github.com/wilsharo/flutter_chromecast_example
@eseidelGoogle @gedw99 @ott-web @PhilParisot @dlevesque1980
showang commentedon May 28, 2019
I made a plugin for display cast button and control connecting behavior.
But does not include cast media behavior, because it's implementation depends on your player.
https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_google_cast_button
I hope it will helps. : )
Hixie commentedon Nov 27, 2019
Since there are packages and examples for this, I'm going to close it. It's highly unlikely the Flutter team itself would implement this as it is outside of our area of expertise.
amitnair32 commentedon Dec 30, 2019
How i can loop a video that's being cast ?
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