OpenCast is a Mac/iOS framework for communicating with Google Cast devices. It ships with the same headers as the official Google Cast iOS framework and aims to be fully API-compatible with it.
Use Cases
- Developing Mac apps that interact with Google Cast devices (e.g., Chromecast)
- iOS/Mac product families that want to support Google Cast
- Complex iOS sender applications for Google Cast that may not be possible with the official framework
Examples
See the Samples/ directory for example code. The CastCommander project is an example of a complete Mac application that uses OpenCast.
Feature Parity
Implemented
- Scan for devices
- Connect to device
- Launch custom receiver application
- Launch "default" media receiver application
- Load media from URL
- Play, pause, stop
- Seek
- Stop receiver application
- Change volume, mute
- Respond to heartbeat messages
Not yet implemented
- Connect to existing session
- Launch application {even, except} if there's an existing session
- Pass custom data (
customDataparameters) to receiver application - API changes in version 2.4