Just yesterday the news of the availability of Chromecast in Spain and 10 other countries. A dongle that allows you to connect it to the HDMI output of your television to offer "smart" functions such as the possibility of streaming the entire multimedia content that you have on your Android or iOS terminal.
We bring you the best applications you can install in your devices to extend even more if possible the possibilities offered by the fashionable dongle, and which Google is selling like hotcakes.
all cast
Allcast is one of the best applications that you can find for Chromecast, apart to be created by one of the best developers for Android as is Koush.
This application allows you to stream your photos, videos and music from your Android device to Chromecast. The application has a pleasant user interface and support your Xbox, Apple TV, Roku and other types of multimedia receivers. You have the option of streaming from a DLNA server.
The application has a free version but limit playback to one minute, so you will need the premium version for € 3,65
Mirror
If you were looking for an application that does "Mirror" on the television of what you are watching on the terminal screen, Mirror is appropriate. The only thing is that you need ROOT privileges.
Although at the moment it is not in the Play Store, you can go to this link, where you can join the Google+ group, and then download the beta in the links that you will find.
Chrome Beta
You can share videos from the Chrome browser in its beta version, but it is a feature that is still in the testing phase. To activate it you will need to write this command in the URL bar: "chrome: // flags / # enable-cast". Launch the application again and you will have the feature activated.
Now from the Chrome browser you can go the same to Youtube to test the functionality to stream the videos on your television.
Pocket Casts
You can play podcasts on your TV With this application, which although it costs € 2,99, it will serve you perfectly to carry this functionality through Chromecast.
day frame
An application that was designed to turn your tablet or phone into a photo frame virtual, has managed to adapt to what Chromecast offers. You can launch the images from any photography service such as 500px, Instagram or Dropbox to your TV screen.
At the same time, you can also use your own photos so that the slides pass before you. Best of all, that in the latest update they offer free slide show.
Photo Cast - iOS
An iOS app for Chromecast that follows in the wake of Dayframe, although it is not totally similar, since cannot access your images in the cloud, but manage to launch the photos that you have taken with your own phone.
dsub
This application allows stream your music to Chromecast, whether it is stored on the server that you have created with Subsonic or from your own phone.
Although at the moment it is limited to only a few file formats, they are updating it to integrate more features.
Google Play Music
Google's own music service can be used to stream your song library, either from an Android device or an iPhone.
LocalCast Media 2 Chromecast
We face which may well be the free version of Allcast by Koush. With a wide range of possibilities from streaming video or music images from the Android device or browser.
Anyway, that advertising that you will find in the application can be removed when purchasing the premium version.
Apart from all those mentioned, you have a few more such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, HBO Go, Pandora, YouTube, Google Play Movies, Plex and BBC iPlayer, which were the first to open the world of Chromecast to the users.