Google Chrome Cast is the talk of the town, a brand new gadget recently revealed by the computing giant which lets you stream  media directly form the cloud and broadcast channels on your computer and the game changing factors is the price ! only 35$ and you can enjoy  online cloud based streaming anywhere. As the chrome cast dongles hits the market, many developers are digging ways to exploit the full power of this colossal cloud gadget and CheapCast is a stepping stone in the series, an open source Android App that lets you emulate the Chrome Cast on multiple machines and mobile devices. Using this app , if you don't have the USB plug-in port for the mobile device, you can emulate the Chrome cast by turning the cheap casting on.

The usability of CheapCast is great and laymen can understand this app quickly. Using and setting up the application is incredibly simple and one can learn this app in simple steps. Just download the app from the play store and install it. After the successful installation and enabling of the base services, you can synch the app with your Chrome cast dongle at the base server from which you will use the services for the other devices. Within the app itself, users can change the friendly name, which is used to identify the Chrome cast receiver. After the service has been enabled, CheapCast works just like the real chrome cast device and there will be no latency, scalability and channel dropping issues if everything is done correctly. Your phone will accept all the casts and signals from the valid sources and  and is able to accept your casts from compatible applications. There is however , one limitation in the  beta version of CheapCast and that is the lack of support for Google Cast tab streaming from Chrome.

Apart from the benefits of the cheap casting on your devices, there are some shortcoming inherited from the Chrome cast which will be depleted as soon as Google updates the device’s cloud services. You may experience functionality lags, irregularities. There will be a need for patched root exploits and constant back end channel discovery before you emulate but this is perfectly normal and the real chrome cast device acts the same.  You must check the cheapcast fun by getting hands on experience. You can download this app for free from Play Store.

via xda-developers