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Keep chromecast alive when app goes into background

Problem to solve

When chromecasting in mobile apps (ex Xamarin forms), keep chromecasting in background.Right now chromecasting is stopped when app goes to background

Intended users

All users who chromecast are used to that it is possible to go to other apps and still keep chromecasting alive.

Proposal

Use background services or similar or create api for continue chromecast in a background service on iOS and Android

Users can use there devices for other things while chromecasting. Other chromecast apps can do this and users expect it.

Documentation

We need a sample or written documentation on how to achieve this.

Here are a link for a git repo for testing on android. https://github.com/blombas/VlcChromecast.git

on my phone chromecast will continue for around 10 minutes, then it will be disconnected

Edited by Anders Blomqvist
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