Chromecast from android doesn't use styled receiver

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I have implemented Chromecast on my website, using a styled media receiver.

It works great on desktop.

Although when I cast videos from my website from an android tablet, I guess that instead of using my Chromecast code, it uses Google Chrome's default implementation of Chromecast, therefore not using my styled media receiver, but the generic media receiver instead.

Is there any way to make sure my app uses my styled media receiver instead of the default one? I've seen this on a lot of other websites, but I've also noticed that Youtube has a custom one.

Is it just because Youtube belongs to Google and they have built something specific for it?

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javascriptandroidgoogle-chromechromecast

1 Answers

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First, make sure the media route selector knows about your app id:

mMediaRouteSelector = new MediaRouteSelector.Builder()
  .addControlCategory(CastMediaControlIntent.categoryForCast("YOUR_APPLICATION_ID"))
  .build();

In addition, make sure when oyu launch your app, you include your app id:

Cast.CastApi.launchApplication(mApiClient, "YOUR_APPLICATION_ID", false)