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		johne20 on Feb 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google ... Are you able in to interact with the content cast to 2nd screen? eg. I send a image gallery, can I browse through it using my cast sender? I assume not.

CSDude on Feb 3, 2014 | [–]

Yes, sender and reciever has a bi-directional communication channel, you can do whatever you want.

mmind on Feb 3, 2014 | | [–]

Correct. Think of a virtual webwebsocket: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/receiver/c...

The sender is written for any of the platforms supported (iOS, Android, Chrome) and the receiver in javascript.

johne20 on Feb 3, 2014 | | | [–]

Nice! thx.

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