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The Styled Media Receiver (SMR) allows your sender application to play media on
a Cast device without creating your own custom receiver application. You can
customize the SMR color scheme and branding by providing your own CSS file
during registration.
Registration
To use the SMR for your application select the Styled Media Receiver option
when you add a new application in the
Google Cast SDK Developer Console.
See Registration for more information. This option
includes a link to Preview the default style sheet as well as a field where
you enter the URL to your style sheet. You can either use the default styles or
provide the HTTPS URL to your CSS file. You can use your own server to host the
CSS file. Once you provide the URL to your CSS file, you can click Preview
to see how your styles will look on the receiver.
Supported media
All receivers support the media types, as described in
Supported Media.
The SMR supports video, audio and images and is controlled from a sender
application using the Cast SDK media channel. The SMR fully complies with the
UX Guidelines for media playback on a Cast device.
Type fonts
See Pre-installed fonts for a list of
fonts pre-installed with the receiver.
CSS
The Styled Media Receiver uses the following CSS classes:
.background: The background for the receiver.
.logo: The logo shown when the receiver is launching. This class is also
used when the receiver is in the idle state and no .splash class is
declared.
.progressBar: The progress bar for media playback.
.splash: The screen shown when the receiver is in an idle state. If this
class is not declared, the receiver will default to .logo or the app name.
.watermark: A watermark shown when the media is playing.
Here is an example CSS file that uses these classes:
Following are some illustrations of these classes in use.
Video
Note: The video image art is 96x143 pixels and the first image resource
associated with the media metadata is selected for display. Images are scaled to
fit the expected dimensions.
Audio
Note: The audio album art is 384x384 pixels and the first image resource
associated with the media metadata is selected for display. Images are scaled to
fit the expected dimensions.
Images from Big Buck Bunny: (c) copyright 2008,
Blender Foundation / www.bigbuckbunny.org
Image from Sintel: (c) copyright Blender Foundation / www.sintel.org
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