Why integration of Google Cast alongside Exoplayer really sucks?
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