Recently I played around with the integration of Google Cast inside Exoplayer and I was really amazed to see how bad it is and how much it sucks. I decided to write this post with the idea it will help someone else who is also struggling with the Google Cast integration for exoplayer.
Requirements
So the requirements I had for the integration of Google Cast are quite simple:
- Play an item on cast
- Play a list of items – when you press Next you go to the next item
- Forward / Backwards with 30 seconds – so you can skip through the track
- Play / Pause support
- Switch between lists of items – you can player item 2 of List A, you should be able to switch to item 3 of List B
- Switch between phone playback and cast playback – switch from cast to app and from app to cast
- Update the progress when casting – time elapsed should also be updated
- Volume up/down are supported
