Google is working on letting you cast media to your Pixel Tablet just by holding your phone in front of it

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They intentionally block casting from your Pixel phone to a TV, unless you use Chromecast. Google is terrible when it comes to casting.
- Also disabled DisplayPort over USB-C on all Pixel phones to force you to buy a Chromecast.
  
  Which really fucked me over last month when my Pixel 7 Pro's screen died and I had no way of accessing the phone's data, since I hadn't allowed developer mode on any of my PCs yet
- I have a TV with Android TV and casting stopped working, and found out Google requires signing into the TV with an account now? I didn't feel like doing that so started using airplay which TV supports too.

That would be pretty neat. But I think they should get connected calling and messaging between phone and tablet in there. Apple does it, Samsung does it, the web app doesn't cut it.
Edit: and immediately after posting this, I found this
https://lemm.ee/post/3931939
- They are also working on connected calling

I would think this would be a huge boon for reverse engineers to potentially come up with a self hosted cast compatible interface. Much more opportunity for looking under the hood in this configuration.
- This has already been done over wireless ADB and more if you just want mirroring. For content aware casting we essentially just have DLNA derivatives and nothing better.

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