If you are a Chromecast owner with one of these Amazon Fire tablets, you can also enjoy Chromecast on your Fire tablet. Please note, although the current Fire OS (4.5.3) is based on Android Kit. Kat 4.4.3, the Android screen mirroring (screencasting) does not work on Fire tablets.
Fire tablet casting to Chromecast was fully supported for a brief time in the past, but then the rivalry between Amazon and Google heated up, Amazon introduced their own Fire. TV stick competing with the Chromecast, and casting to Chromecast was deliberately crippled on Fire tablets.
Also, how to use Chromecast on Kindle Fire?
To use the Chromecast App for Kindle Fire, you can simply open the app and search for the activated Chromecast dongle that is also connected to your Wi-Fi connection. After being connected, you can now go to various app on your phone that also supported media casting.
This of course begs the query “Why doesn’t the Amazon Prime Video app support Chromecast?”
This is what our research found. However, the Amazon version of the prime video app doesn’t support it. It might be that the agreement between Google and Amazon only pertains to adding casting support to the play store version of prime video. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe it’s not called Chromecast, it’s called Google Home.
Do I need root to control my Chromecast with fire 8?
You don’t need root or anything. I bought a Fire 8 tablet specifically to control my chromecast youtube. I plan on integrating the tablet to the coffee table and make the tv chromecast and the tablet always in sync, this way I can use the coffee table (tablet) as a remote for youtube.
, your i OS or Android device must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your Chromecast. Please ensure that your Chromecast, whether standalone or built-in to another device, is up to date .
Can I Mirror my Fire tablet to my Smart TV?
The only device you can directly mirror your Fire tablet display to is the Fire TV or Fire Stick. Without one of these devices, you won’t be able to mirror your tablet, stream video through Amazon Prime Video, or push your music to your smart TV unless your television itself is running Fire OS.
How to use Kindle Fire as a TV receiver?
One other thing that you might want to try out with your Kindle Fire device is streaming contents, such as videos, images or sound files, directly to your TV system. Well, the correct term would be casting it from the device to TV. You can do this simply with the help of Chromecast App for Kindle Fire.