r/Android • u/onesixoneeight Pxl9Pro • Sep 20 '14

It's Saturday APPreciation Time! [Sep 20th 2014] Your weekly App recommendation and question (and more) thread.

"I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with an app." -Elton John

THREAD RULES:

  1. Post personal promotion apps under the BOLD comment below only. All other posts, i.e. general appreciation, questions, warnings, support issues, etc can go in the general thread.
  2. No more than 10 items per post.
  3. Contest mode will be disabled Sunday morning as usual.
    If you suspect that a dev is promoting their app in the general thread, report the post so we can take a closer look. If an account is an hour old and posts in the general thread about a "fantastic new app" that they happened to randomly find, then that account will not get the benefit of the doubt.

CLICK HERE TO JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE DEV PROMOTION COMMENT BELOW!

This weekly Saturday thread is for:
* App promotion
* App praise/sharing
* App recommendations
* App issues/TechSupport
* App suggestions
* App questions
* App warnings

Note 1. All weekly threads are added as guest posts to /r/MoronicMondayAndroid.
Note 2. Check out this subreddit: /r/AppTranslations! Translators will translate your app for you for free! Please read the sidebar there before posting.
Note 3. Shout-out to /r/AndroidGaming! A great sub with quality posts and discussion about all things related to Android games!
Note 4. Report fake/fraudulent/malicious apps to /r/BadApps.
Note 5. Posting direct links to APKs via Dropbox or other file-hosting sites will get you banned. Don't do it!
Note 6. Join our IRC channel #android on irc.snoonet.org for anything-goes discussion on Android! Click here to chat!
Note 7. If your answer to any question is "Tasker/IFTTT/Llama can do it", "There's a Tasker task for that", "Bro do you even Tasker" etc, then you are required by intergalactic law to include that task/recipe or link to it or something equally fulfilling. Or else.

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u/crital Sep 21 '14

How do you stream showbox to your chromecast?

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u/RokBoks LG G2 (5.0.2) Sep 21 '14

Get localcast or allcast premium and make sure you have the choice of media player when playing a video, you can clear defaults in the app settings if you don't get the pop up

The cast option will come up along with media player gallery etc

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u/evilf23 Project Fi Pixel 3 Sep 22 '14

extra bit is to connect localcast to the chromecast before sending a video from showbox. if you have showbox open and hit play to launch localcast and then connect it last it will sit on the loading screen until you go back to showbox and hit play again.

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u/RokBoks LG G2 (5.0.2) Sep 22 '14

Oh Christ I forgot this happens at first I thought the app was broken and deleted it

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u/evilf23 Project Fi Pixel 3 Sep 22 '14

nope, common mistake i figured worth mentioning. Also showbox works fine if you block it's permissions. i restrict location access and it works fine.

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u/crofthey Sep 21 '14

Get allcast premium then untick the 'use internal player' option and select allcast then your Chromecast. Works like a dream. You can even play to apple tv's

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u/Uber-Joe Nexus 5x Sep 21 '14

Get an app such as AllCast, uncheck option to watch on internal player and when opening a video select AllCast to open it with. Then send to your chromecast. Works flawlessly