Cast shell android

[Stefan Isidorovic]

Hi,

I'm trying to understand how cast playback function on android. I succeeded to build Cast.apk, with libcast_shell_android.so and libcast_media_1.0.so. But apk itself is crushing heavily.

I tried to replace libraries inside of existing Google Cast Receiver. But after that Google Cast Receiver also start crushing.

My goal is to add additional logs inside of components which I see that are triggered in logcat to see and better understand cast playback underneath.


So far I build libcast_shell_android.so and libcast_media_1.0.so from chromium sources, but cannot replace those libraries successfully.

How I can (if I can at all) replace those libraries?
Are same libraries used in Google Cast Receiver? (As I know so far, according to logs I see it should be same code).

Error logs which I get are primary with some crash dump buffer (index related or cannot create) or error regarding to load library...

[Luke Halliwell]

Build/install as described here: https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-cast

As stated there, that apk is not functionally equivalent to Google's Cast apk (which is built with additional non-public code).

Additionally, since the test suite for Cast apk in Chromium is somewhat light, there may be some breakage from time to time.  That situation should improve in time.

[Stefan Isidorović]

I did it as described and successfully build .apk file. I get error when I try to start to cast some yt video. But its crashing.

My primary goal is to see logs which I added during casting some video. So I tried to use .apk cast which I built from chromium source. My second attempt was to replace libs which Google Cast Receiver targets (they should be same libraries which came along with Chromium cast .apk or not?)

I tried to avoid error which I get by commenting code for crush dump buffer but I didnt get much :-/ Can I somehow cast some playback on any way just to see logs, I'm interested to know how and with which components cast playback interacts with Android itself.

Thanks

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[Luke Halliwell]

You can't cast to the apk that you build from Chromium sources.  As the build instructions show, you can pass a URL to cast shell from the command line (am start -d).  If you're interested in playback, you can specify a URL of a page containing video.

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[Stefan Isidorović]

Sorry for botherin... When you say url page containing video is it enough to pass yt link? Because I tried to pass some yt link (even link which google cast receiver target on load yt.com/castv2). but I get just plain view. Is there way to control casted page?

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[Luke Halliwell]

There is no way to control the cast page.  If you want to see video playback, you should pick a URL that autoplays.

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