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Home > News > Chromecast Update Lets You Mirror the Screen of Your Android Device on Your TV
Chromecast Mirroring Nexus 5

Chromecast Update Lets You Mirror the Screen of Your Android Device on Your TV

July 9, 2014 by giovanni

At last month’s Google I/O conference, one of the more interesting announcements Google made was that Chromecast would be getting an update that would allow you to mirror the screen of your Android device on your TV. True to its word, Google has today started to rollout that feature via an update to the Chromecast app.

Providing you have the latest version of the app installed (1.7), you can access the new feature by opening up the navigation drawer in the Chromecast app, and selecting the “Cast Screen” option. Or, if you have a Nexus smartphone or tablet, you should find a “Cast Screen” option in the quick settings menu.

Once the Cast Screen option has been activated, whatever appears on your small screen will then appear on your big screen. You can even fire up your camera app and have a play with some live mirroring!

Google says the mirroring feature is currently in beta, and will be available to “popular” HTC, LG, Samsung, and other Android smartphones and tablets over the next few days.

I’ve only had a quick play with the new feature on my Nexus 5, but so far I’m impressed. As always, we’d love to hear what you think though. Leave a comment below, via your favorite social network, or over on our forums.

[Source: Google]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: apps, Chromecast, Google, Mobility, TV

About giovanni

giovanni is an ad age, emmy, telly, & webby award-winning search engine optimization and social media strategist from texas who works with brands in entertainment, fashion, food & beverage, sports, and technology.

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Comments

  1. Zain says

    August 6, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    Will the tf300t be supported for mirroring?

    • Paul Dixon says

      August 6, 2014 at 6:11 pm

      From what I’ve read, it doesn’t sound like it is at the moment. Maybe that will change in the future?

  2. Matt says

    July 11, 2014 at 1:57 pm

    Well, works from my Nexus 4 but the phone and the chromecast got really hot and the chromecast locked up until it cooled down! Well it is still in Beta.

    What I saw was very good though, if a little laggy on games (insert unplayable).

  3. Mike says

    July 9, 2014 at 9:48 pm

    hmmm… Chromecast v1.7.4 on an Asus TF300T (Andy 4.2.1) and there doesn’t appear to be a “Cast Screen” option in the nav panel.

    • Mike says

      July 9, 2014 at 9:53 pm

      went to C’cast help and found that screen casting is supported on a very limited number of devices. Just a few from LG, Samsung, HTC.

    • Mike says

      July 9, 2014 at 10:20 pm

      tried it on my GN4 and it works fine. a slight change to the normal procedure – casting is established from within C’cast instead of the app to cast from, but it seems to work OK so far. FINALLY! one of the main reasons I picked up the GN4 was it’s “supposed” support for MHL, which I could never get to work.

      but – a day late and maybe not a dollar short, but finally, finally, finally…
      I can get my “smart”phone to do what I was doing with my old laptop 4 years ago.

      • Paul Dixon says

        July 10, 2014 at 8:14 am

        Glad you got it working in the end 🙂

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