The Netflix and YouTube apps supporting Chromecast show the MediaRouteButton in the action bar, but the Sender App Tutorial only shows how to display it in a layout. How do you display it in the action bar?
You can display it in the action bar by adding it to your action bar menu:
<item
android:id="@+id/action_mediaroute"
android:actionProviderClass="android.support.v7.app.MediaRouteActionProvider"
android:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.app.MediaRouteButton"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="@string/action_chromecast"/>
Then you provide initialization in onCreateOptionsMenu
:
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu( Menu menu ) {
getMenuInflater().inflate( R.menu.main, menu );
MenuItem mediaRouteItem = menu.findItem( R.id.action_mediaroute );
mMediaRouteButton = (MediaRouteButton) mediaRouteItem.getActionView();
mCastContext = new CastContext( getApplicationContext() );
MediaRouteHelper.registerMinimalMediaRouteProvider( mCastContext, this );
mMediaRouter = MediaRouter.getInstance( getApplicationContext() );
mMediaRouteSelector = MediaRouteHelper.buildMediaRouteSelector( MediaRouteHelper.CATEGORY_CAST );
mMediaRouteButton.setRouteSelector( mMediaRouteSelector );
mMediaRouterCallback = new MyMediaRouterCallback();
return true;
}
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