With the help of feedback from the users and other advancements in technology and updates, Cast streaming is easy and immensely popular now.Īs of 2016, Google Cast has been fully built into Chrome now and can be used without needing to install anything else. Your favorite show on Netflix or watching event pictures with a family, Cast allowed you to view anything from the web directly over to your TV. Google Cast is now built into Chromeįor Chrome, Google Cast was released as an extension that needed to be installed. With several popular (and not so popular) apps being Cast-enabled via the inauguration of the Cast Version 3, it has now become a rarity that you will not see the Cast widget logo on top when using your apps. With the announcement of the latest Version 3, several complexities of the previous versions have been revamped so that developers no longer need to skewer through huge blocks of code. Based on the feedback of content partners and developers, Google has improved and provided a consistent API for all supported platforms to “Cast-enable” these apps.

As Chromecast received updates, Google too kept improving the API for Google Cast.

In 2013, it became available to developers and allowed them to have their iOS, Android and Chrome apps to be extended over to TV sets. Through the years and since the dawn of the first generation Chromecast, Google Cast too has received a number of updates, libraries and more that have made it much more friendly to third-party developers.

What happened to Google Cast? (the Chrome Extension)

Google chrome cast app for desktop