FlingCast

Fire Tv Stick casting utility

This application allows to cast a web video to the Amazon Fire Tv Stick and other compatible devices.

Please note, that this app WILL NOT cast encrypted and DRM protected streams such as Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO and others. It casts only regular, plain web videos, where source URL could be detected.

How it works.

The app could be used in two ways.

The fist way is to install a browser plugin that can detect video files and presents a cast button in the browser's toolbar. The only browser that used to be supported is Firefox but with their latest changes they have disabled almost all plugins, therefore the only way to use it is to install the plugin manually in Kiwi browser.

The plugin file located here: https://bitbucket.org/wolandsoft/flingcast-android-browser-ext/downloads/chromium_mod.zip

Download the plugin, In Kiwi browser go to the tree-dots-settings, Extensions and enable the Developer mode. Once enabled, use the [Load] button to load the extension.

The second way is to use the Share (or Send To) option from any browser that will reload the page in the app view and then to use the cast button from that view.

Note to users who have a stability issue.

The Fling-SDK provided by Amazon and used in that application is relatively new component and it has some stability issue. Most of them are on remote side (on Fire Tv Stick side) but some of them are on a client side. Amazon is very slow with fixing these issues and therefore need to know about workarounds that will help in these situations.

* No device detected => Try to toggle (Off->On) the WIFI connection. If didn't help, restart the Fire Tv Stick device.

* Device detected but can not connect => Restart the Fire Tv Stick device.