Google Cast API Reference
This reference provides the following API documentation for send
and receiver applications.
Sender application APIs
A sender application runs on the device the user is holding and
manages the user's interaction with the content.
For sender applications, Google Cast supports app development for the
Android, iOS, and Cast-supported web platforms with the following documentation:
Receiver application APIs
A receiver application is a Chrome application that runs on the Google Cast
receiver device connected to the display and manages the display of the content.
Use the API to create a custom receiver application. The Media Player Library provides
your application with a media player. The APIs are documented here:
Resources
See Install API Libraries for
setup instructions for the above APIs.
See the following guides for more information about developing with these APIs:
Licenses
Web Sender, Media Player Library and Receiver use the Closure library,
which is licensed under the
Apache
2.0 License, and the lit-html library, which is licensed under
the BSD
3-Clause License.
Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.
Last updated 2024-09-18 UTC.
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