Dashboard Cast was a personalization app developed by RiR. It was removed from Google Play Jun 14, 2018 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Dashboard Cast had been downloaded 220 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Dashboard Cast was rated 3.91 out of 5 stars, based on 2.2 thousand ratings.
App Information
Dashboard Cast was free to download. The APK download size was 6.84 MB. The last available version was 1.3.4. The last update was on February 25, 2017.
Technical Requirements
Dashboard Cast required Android 4.1+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play July 2014.
Description
Dashboard Cast is a personalized homescreen for Chromecast. Create and organise widgets to your liking and display them on your TV. This app requires a Chromecast or a Cast enabled device to work.
---- This app is developed on my free time, I do what I can to make this app work and bring new features. To help support the development of Dashboard Cast, you can make a donation from the app ----
You can now create alarms to automatically trigger casting of your dashboard to your TV.
Widgets available : - Clock and date - Weather: get current and future weather forecasts - RSS: view RSS or ATOM feeds on your TV - Calendar: read your phone's calendar and display it on your TV - Stock: select from a list of stock quotes - Audio : play audio streams or podcasts (beta). Select a podcast from the app, or enter a url to an audio file or stream or playlist and listen to it on your chromecast. Supported audio file and playlist formats : mpeg (mp3, mp4, etc), .ogg, .pls, .xpsf, .m3u. - Map: Weather layer or traffic map with directions information
Features available : - Choose your own backgrounds to display behind your widgets (beta) - Customize the look of your widgets
More widgets and more personalization options coming in future versions. Upcoming widgets and features : - Note widget - Picture slideshow widget - Facebook and other social media integration - Email widget - Integration with other audio services (Google Music and others) - Device notifications widget - Better widget position, options and size control - Additional interaction with widgets on Chromecast from your device
Want to suggest features to add to Dashboard Cast? Select the contact option in the app or send an email to rircomments@gmail.com
Some Dashboard Cast widgets are still considered experimental. If there are any problems or issues, use the in-app contact button or send an email to rircomments@gmail.com.
If you wish to help translate the app, send an email to rircomments@gmail.com with the language you wish to translate into.
Permissions : - Read phone state : Needed to display advertisement. - Approximate location : the weather widget has an option to use your current location to get weather data. The permission is needed to access the city you are in to display proper weather data. - Read calendar events : the calendar widget needs this permission to send your upcoming events to Chromecast. If you do not have a calendar widget set up, the application does not look at your calendar data. - Google Play billing service : necessary to make in-app donations to remove ads. - Prevent phone from sleeping : if the phone sleeps while connected to the Chromecast, the connection is interrupted. Therefore the application needs to prevent the CPU from going to sleep in order to keep the connection open. - Receive device boot completed : needed to schedule alarms when the device is powered on. - Access and change wifi state : allows Dashboard Cast to automatically turn on wifi without going into the device settings.
Recent changes: - Visual refresh to many components in the app - Lots technical improvements under the hood
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★★★★★
This app is amazing! Instantaneously, when set up correctly, you have an infinite source of information about news, weather and traffic. I love all the features of the app. I would like to see a 'mobile view' so that you don't have to put it on the TV. A HTML function would be very good too, and a website view would be lovely (controllable). One problem I found was the maps. It would endlessly buffer, but that could be my problem.
★★★★★
Solid app. I would like to know if it has a standalone mode where I don't
need to cast. I'm looking to see it on a monitor by itself.
★★★★★
Great for everyday use. Love what it does! Sometimes Chromecast crashes when modifying components from the app.
★★☆☆☆
I like this app, would like to have more control on fonts, integration with
YT and Google now and Google Music or other music rather BBC!, I saw some
plans in that route, so I like the app! BTW, it's a hidden Gem! but needs
improve... update 05/19/18, lower to 1 stars ads all over screen no easy
way to remove... the ads pay if you see them, donate? i don't think so!
★★☆☆☆
App has horrible ad pop-up that is un-exitable and ruins the app experience. Un-usable app. Can't use it for even 5 seconds before it's ruined by the banner ad taking up entire app screen.
★★☆☆☆
Great idea. However, Chromecast keeps crashing when I try to edit my widgets.
★★☆☆☆
I like the app but the stock widget is not working.
Technologies used by Dashboard Cast
Dashboard Cast is requesting 19 permissions and is using 14 libraries.
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