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Droid_9
Droid_9

Reputation: 165

Chromecast sender APIs for WebView based app on Android 4.4

I read that WebView component in Android 4.4 is based on Chrome: https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/webview/overview#does_the_webview_support_the_chrome_apps_apis

However, support for Chrome Apps API is still not there. Does this mean that my WebView based app cannot use Chromecast Sender APIs ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1998

Answers (2)

REJH
REJH

Reputation: 3275

I think Chromecast is one of those things that doesn't come with Chromium (the opensource project where Chrome is based upon) and Android uses Chromium for the webview, not Chrome :)

Upvotes: 1

Ali Naddaf
Ali Naddaf

Reputation: 19044

That is correct, you do not have the needed extension and APIs to use the (pure) chrome WebView to communicate with a chromecast device. As a side note, you cannot do that in the full Chrome on Android either.

Upvotes: 4

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