Google APIs for Android > GoogleApiClient You should instantiate a client object in your Activity’s onCreate(Bundle) method and then call connect() in onStart() and disconnect() in onStop(), regardless of the state. The implementation of the GoogleApiClient appears designed for only a single instance. It’s best to instantiate it only once in onCreate, then perform connections … Read more
If you don’t want to change the color of the icon, framework would choose the right one (dark or light) based on the theme of your actionbar, so for an actionbar with light background, it will choose a darker icon and vice versa; here is a sample app with two different themes, Theme.AppCompat.Light and Theme.AppCompat, … Read more
Check these; hopefully they get things sorted out: Make sure you have registered your chromecast device on the developer console. Double check the serial number since sometimes it is hard to read it. During the chromecast setup, there was a box stating something like “Send the serial number ..”, make sure that is checked Wait … Read more
Update: After several attempts, it looks like this may have been fixed in latest Chrome builds (per Paul Irish’s comment below). That would suggest we will see this fixed in stable Chrome June-July 2016. Let’s see … This is a known bug with the official Chromecast JavaScript library. Instead of failing silently, it dumps these … Read more