Members of the Chromecast team host Reddit AMA
Six members of Google's Chromecast team took to Reddit to host an AMA this morning. Majd Bakar (Engineering), Ambarish Kenghe, David Allison and Mark Scott (Product), Sarah Walter (User Experience) and Jacky Hayward (Community) spent a few hours tackling...
Google may eventually allow OEMs to customise Android Wear, Auto and TV
Android has spread. As head of Android, Sundar Pichai said in his blog post announcing Android Lollipop this morning 'it’s designed to be shared', but so far, Google hasn't really shared access to Android Wear, or other upcoming Android...
Updated Chromecast possibly with 5GHz Wifi support stops by the FCC
Google announced the game changing Chromcast dongle over a year ago now, and it's seen a massive turn around in fortunes for Google in the living room. With yesterdays announcement of the Nexus Player, most people though that ...
Plex announces support for the Nexus Player
The launch of the Nexus Player was a bit of a surprise this morning, with most leaks in the lead up to the announcement focusing on the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9. But a Nexus 'TV' is quite welcome...
Meet Google’s new Nexus family: Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player
Google has just announced the latest members of its Nexus family, the Nexus 6 smartphone made by Motorola, Nexus 9 tablet made by HTC and surprised us all with the first Android TV device - the Nexus Player made...
Backdrop for Chromecast goes live with your favorite photo albums from Google+
Back at Google I/O, Google announced new functionality coming to Chromecast that would embellish the current crop of beautiful imagery that's displayed as a screensaver when your Chromecast isn't 'casting'. Called Backdrop it promised to allow you to add...
Android TV Developer kit – the ADT-1 Unboxed
The battle for the living room is on. Google has been trying to get there for years now, beginning back in October of 2010, when they launched their first TV box, Google TV. They initially partnered with Logitech and...
Google updates Chromecast section in Play Store to Google Cast
Google has been moving towards the term 'Google Cast' for their Chromecast functions for a while now. To emphasise this, it appears Google has updated Google Play Chromecast apps section of the Android Google Play Store to be now...
Retailer Round-up: This Week’s Specials
So it's been a few weeks now since we last did a retailer round-up, so we thought it might be time to do another one. So getting straight into business, here is what the big retailers have install for...
Google Chromecast streams into even more retailers
The Chromecast is getting easier to find, with more retailers recently adding the HDMI dongle to their range and now you can add a few more to the list, with The Good Guys and Bing Lee now beginning to...
Game streaming service Twitch adds Chromecast support to their app
Game streaming service Twitch, who were recently purchased by Amazon - apparently gazzumping Google at the post if rumours are to be believed - has now added Chromecast support to their Android app.
According to the Twitch Blog, the support...
ABC adds Chromecast support to iview for iOS, Android app to get Beta support...
As a launch partner for Chromecast, the ABC sure has taken their sweet time adding Chromecast to their iview apps, but it's finally here...for iOS, but fear not because Android support will be here soon.
In a pair of tweets...
You can now Chromecast video files from Google Drive in the ChromeOS Dev Channel
ChromeOS is moving forward with Chromecast support, with the Chromium team adding Chromecast support for movies stored in Google Drive and played on the VideoPlayer App in the latest Dev update in ChromeOS.
To play the files, open the Files...
The Asus Nexus Player: An Android TV?
Leaks regarding Nexus devices always have us here at Ausdroid salivating at the lips. This time it is not a Nexus 8 tablet made by HTC, nor is it a Nexus phone made by Motorola, it is an...
Latest Netflix for Android update adds Post-Play support for Chromecast
Were all doing it, well a lot of us anyway, circumventing geo-restrictions and watching a vast array of movies and TV from the US on Netflix, a large portion on Chromecast. Now Netflix has finally updated their app to...