Streaming motion pictures or music from your Android phone to your television is simple.
Nelson Aguilar is an LA-based tech how-to author and graduate of UCLA. With more than a years of experience, he covers Apple and Google and composes on iPhone and Android functions, personal privacy and security settings and more.
When you discover an amusing video on your phone– for example, a TikTok video– often it’s much easier to share it on a larger screen rather of having everybody hovering over your phone. Rather of pulling up the app on your Television and attempting to hunt down the video, there’s a simpler method: mirror your phone’s screen onto your tv.
The very best part is, you must currently have whatever you require. If not, do not stress, it’s not too pricey to get whatever established. Here’s how you can begin matching or casting your Android phone or tablet’s screen to your television.
Whatever you require to mirror your Android phone to your television
For beginners, you’ll require an Android gadget that has matching abilities. Android has actually had mirror casting because Android 5.0 Lollipop, so unless your gadget is genuinely ancient, you’re in the clear.
In addition to a suitable Android phone or tablet, you’ll likewise require a Google Chromecast streaming gadget, like the Chromecast with Google Television HD (with a full-fledged remote) or a television with integrated Chromecast assistance, like the Hisense U8H Google Television.
If you do not understand whether your television has Chromecast assistance, the very best method to examine is to see if it appears as an offered casting gadget when you follow either technique listed below.
Google’s Chromecast with Google Television, or an older Chromecast gadget is all you require to mirror your Android gadget.
David Katzmaier/CNETCast your screen to a television utilizing the Google Home app
The most trustworthy and constant method to mirror your Android phone’s screen is to utilize the Google Home app. If you’ve currently established any of Google’s clever speakers, Nest Wifi Pro or Chromecast gadgets, you likely currently have it set up. If not, you can download it from the Play shop.
To link to your television, open the Home app on your mobile phone and pick the Chromecast gadget you wish to utilize. At the bottom of the screen you’ll see a button identified Cast my screen– tap it. Tap Cast screen on the timely that appears to start casting whatever is on your phone or tablet onto your Television.
To stop casting your screen, tap on the button identified Stop matching in the Home app.
Screen matching is developed into the Home app.
Screenshots by Jason Cipriani/CNETThere’s a much easier method, depending upon your phone
Utilizing the Home app isn’t a great deal of work, however there’s an even much easier method: the Casting faster way in the fast settings panel. Gain access to the fast settings panel by swiping below the top of your Android phone or tablet’s display screen.
