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  <h1 itemprop="name" style="margin-bottom:0;">Google Cast Android API</h1>
  <p itemprop="description">Google Cast is a technology that enables multi-screen experiences, which
  allows users to send content from mobile devices and personal computers to their TVs.
  You can use the Google Cast Android API
  to add casting functionality to your Android app so users can view your app content on their
  big screens.</p>

  <p>Explore the <a href="{@docRoot}reference/com/google/android/gms/cast/package-summary.html"
  >Google Cast Android API reference</a> or visit <a
  href="http://developers.google.com/cast/" class="external-link">developers.google.com/cast</a>
  for more information about how to design and build your app to support Google Cast.</p>
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    <h3 style="clear:left">Key Developer Features</h3>

      <h4>Add your own style to a pre-built receiver app</h4>
      <p>Adding support for Google Cast requires that you provide a companion app on the
      Google Cast device, known as the receiver app. If your app streams audio or video content
      using one of several supported media types, then you can create a receiver app with your
      own style and branding by creating nothing more than a CSS file.
      <br/><a href="http://developers.google.com/cast/docs/styled_receiver" class="external-link"
      >Create a Styled Media Receiver</a></p>

      <h4>Build an entirely custom receiver app</h4>
      <p>If the Styled Media Receiver does not provide the UI components required for your
      receiver app or does not support the media types your app requires, you can build your
      own receiver app as a web page using the JavaScript Receiver API.
      <br/><a href="http://developers.google.com/cast/docs/styled_receiver" class="external-link"
      >Create a Custom Receiver</a></p>

      <h4>Add playback controls to your app</h4>
      <p>To allow users to control playback on the receiver app, you can add a
      controller interface to your app on Android, iOS, and Chrome. The client app on these devices
      is known as the sender app and can perform a variety of actions using the Google Cast APIs
      such as start and pause playback and control the volume on the Google Cast device.
      <br/><a href="http://developers.google.com/cast/docs/sender_apps" class="external-link"
      >Create a Sender App</a></p>
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    <h3 style="clear:left">Getting Started</h3>
    <h4>1. Get the Google Play services SDK</h4>

    <p>The Google Cast Android APIs are part of the Google Play services platform.</p>
    <p>To get started, <a href="{@docRoot}google/play-services/setup.html">set up
      the Google Play services SDK</a> on your development machine and be sure your test device has
      Google Play services 4.2 (or higher) installed.</p>

    <h4>2. Register your app</h4>
    <p>Before you can develop and test apps on your own Google Cast device,
    you need to acquire an app ID for your API calls and register your Google Cast device
    (such as a Chromecast) as a development device. For details, read the
    <a href="http://developers.google.com/cast/docs/registration"
    class="external-link">Registration</a> guide.</p>

    <h4>3. Design the Android app UI</h4>
    <p>To provide the perfect user experience when casting your content to TVs, be sure your
    app follows all the recommendations in the <a class="external-link"
    href="https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/design_checklist"
    >Design Checklist</a>.</p>

    <h4>4. Start developing</h4>
    <p>Read the <a class="external-link"
    href="https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/developers">Developer's Guide</a>
    to learn how to implement the receiver app and how to send it commands from your Android app.
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    <p>For quick access while developing your Android app, the
    <a href="{@docRoot}reference/com/google/android/gms/cast/package-summary.html">Google Cast
    Android API reference</a> is available here on developer.android.com.</p>

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