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Dashboard Cast is a personalized homescreenfor Chromecast. Create and organise widgets to your liking anddisplay them on your TV. This app requires a Chromecast or a Castenabled device to work.

---- This app is developed on my free time, I do what I can to makethis app work and bring new features. To help support thedevelopment of Dashboard Cast, you can make a donation from the app----

You can now create alarms to automatically trigger casting of yourdashboard to your TV.

Widgets available :
- Clock and date
- Weather: get current and future weather forecasts
- RSS: view RSS or ATOM feeds on your TV
- Calendar: read your phone's calendar and display it on yourTV
- Stock: select from a list of stock quotes
- Audio : play audio streams or podcasts (beta). Select a podcastfrom the app, or enter a url to an audio file or stream or playlistand listen to it on your chromecast. Supported audio file andplaylist formats : mpeg (mp3, mp4, etc), .ogg, .pls, .xpsf,.m3u.
- Map: Weather layer or traffic map with directionsinformation

Features available :
- Choose your own backgrounds to display behind your widgets(beta)
- Customize the look of your widgets

More widgets and more personalization options coming in futureversions.
Upcoming widgets and features :
- Note widget
- Picture slideshow widget
- Facebook and other social media integration
- Email widget
- Integration with other audio services (Google Music andothers)
- Device notifications widget
- Better widget position, options and size control
- Additional interaction with widgets on Chromecast from yourdevice

Want to suggest features to add to Dashboard Cast? Select thecontact option in the app or send an email torircomments@gmail.com

Some Dashboard Cast widgets are still considered experimental. Ifthere are any problems or issues, use the in-app contact button orsend an email to rircomments@gmail.com.

If you wish to help translate the app, send an email torircomments@gmail.com with the language you wish to translateinto.

Permissions :
- Read phone state : Needed to display advertisement.
- Approximate location : the weather widget has an option to useyour current location to get weather data. The permission is neededto access the city you are in to display proper weather data.
- Read calendar events : the calendar widget needs this permissionto send your upcoming events to Chromecast. If you do not have acalendar widget set up, the application does not look at yourcalendar data.
- Google Play billing service : necessary to make in-app donationsto remove ads.
- Prevent phone from sleeping : if the phone sleeps while connectedto the Chromecast, the connection is interrupted. Therefore theapplication needs to prevent the CPU from going to sleep in orderto keep the connection open.
- Receive device boot completed : needed to schedule alarms whenthe device is powered on.
- Access and change wifi state : allows Dashboard Cast toautomatically turn on wifi without going into the devicesettings.