Dashboard Cast

Dashboard Cast Free Theme

Rated 3.89/5 (1,850) —  Free Android application by RiR

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About Dashboard Cast

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.

How to Download / Install

Download and install Dashboard Cast version 1.3.4 on your Android device!
Downloaded 100,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: com.rir.dashboardcast, download Dashboard Cast.apk

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Theme History & Updates

What's Changed
- Visual refresh to many components in the app
- Lots technical improvements under the hood
More downloads  Dashboard Cast reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
Version update Dashboard Cast was updated to version 1.3.4
Version update Dashboard Cast was updated to version 1.2.0
More downloads  Dashboard Cast reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads

What are users saying about Dashboard Cast

I70%
by I####:

Great idea and execution. Love the background pictures. Best thing to turn on in the morning and stream some BBC radio and see my day on the screen. Love it

R70%
by R####:

Wish it had more widgets, also has problems with disconnection

R70%
by R####:

Good customization options and it works reliably. My favorite Chromecast app by far.

R70%
by R####:

Latest update fixed my only issues. Well done!

R70%
by R####:

Great app for the office tv. I see my schedule for the day, the weather and the traffic

R70%
by R####:

Amazing dashboard, did just what I wanted

R70%
by R####:

Great to use in the mornings

R70%
by R####:

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.

R70%
by R####:

I have been looking for something like this for a long time to bring all the Productivity apps under one dash so I can start the day knowing what's coming... on the TV! This is great! I had a bit of trouble setting up the spacing for the first column, but in the end use the note feature to put up a title, 'Dashboard' which pushed down the clock and weather and set them nicely. Two tweaks I'd love to see; My Google Keep reminders as a widget, and some kind of alarm setting that would automatically cast it in the morning. Maybe IFTTT compatability?

R70%
by R####:

Looks pretty good so far! A customizable clock would be great in an update :) The calendar agenda view is a little hard to read (needs separation between days, seems like everything is happening "today") so that would be a good update too.

H70%
by H####:

A HTML widget to input custom HTML/iFrame would be great ! Any chance that's possible. Also a TV Streaming (so i enter the respective URL to a TV stream ) would be great :D Otherwise great app love it!

E70%
by E####:

Great little app, I get to see my family pics, listen to the radio, check the time, get up to date weather and best of all I get to leave messages, all on one screen. And there's a whole lot more you can do.

C70%
by C####:

Maybe add weekday/weekend setting?? Very well done app for Chromecast. All features and functions work perfectly and dev keeps updating. Everything you can ask for.

R70%
by R####:

After I deleted this app my TV is not back to normal. Chromecast will not work anymore. If you want this on your TV forever download it and use it if not look for an alternative.

L70%
by L####:

If you need stations just do a quick google search: radio url list

R70%
by R####:

Needs a way to kill it on phone without having to force stop in settings.

G70%
by G####:

Would like to customize the calander more i am using it as a live calendar at our office and the info presented is thin and hard to see. But i like the app.

R70%
by R####:

Great idea, well executed. Some tweaks to improve space use would improve it further, but dev seems to update regularly so fingers crossed.

R70%
by R####:

Very versatile dashboard app. Polished design. Developer is really responsive and new features are coming. This will only get better.

R70%
by R####:

Can be further polished with more features, More widgets, option to continue casting but disconnect phone, use Google photos for background wallpaper

C70%
by C####:

Biggest complaint: crashes often

R70%
by R####:

Highly recommended better than stock chromecast screensaver... Just try it you will love it

M70%
by M####:

Would love to see this display nest cam feed!

R70%
by R####:

Good to glance at while getting ready for the day.

U70%
by U####:

Great app works all the time

R70%
by R####:

Well on the way to being 5 star

R70%
by R####:

Loved it! Exactly what I wanted

W70%
by W####:

Exactly what I was looking for!

R70%
by R####:

Useful!

R70%
by R####:

Yep... pretty great. ... ♡

R70%
by R####:

It may take a bit of trial and error to get it to look just right but its perfect once done and my grand mom likes the info it displays in the large TV screen.

R70%
by R####:

I like that I can play music

R70%
by R####:

Man, if you add a widget for showing video I'd pay some big bucks for this. This is pretty awesome.

R70%
by R####:

A simply cool, easy in using stuff!!

R70%
by R####:

Just what I needed to stream my favourite radio station. Nice touch with the slideshow. Thank you!

R70%
by R####:

Works really well, love the auto connect option. Wish there was a preview mode in the app, but that's not super important. Tip: use with HDMI-CEC and your TVs built in scheduled off command to turn on and off your TV without any action if your own

O70%
by O####:

Was doing great. Only had a few options to decide from and when it kept saying 7 below when it was 23 above, I knew there was no use for this app with no other decent choices.

R70%
by R####:

Tons of potential, but lacking in some areas. Agenda calendar needs something to divide the days. Alarms not reliable to turn on tv. Otherwise, best app for this but needs tweaks

G70%
by G####:

Brilliant app, useful and well designed! Highly recommended. Would love the ability to increase font sizes for those sleepy morning eyes.

M70%
by M####:

This app is great, if the alarm are reliable it would be five stars, world pay a few bucks and use every day! Seems the issue is it can't get through the lock screen, even just the "swipe" lock screen when it's open from smart lock.


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