How to use react-native-navigation with react-native-google-cast?

[jedashford]

It looks like you specific mention this here:

If you already extend other class than ReactActivity (e.g. if you use react-native-navigation) or integrate React Native in native app, make sure that the Activity is a descendant of android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity. Then add CastContext.getSharedInstance(this); to your Activity's onCreate method (this lazy loads the Google Cast context).

If MainActivity extends NavigationActivity and I add CastContext.getSharedInstance(this); to the onCreate method, then I get build errors. Am I missing something else?

build errors (I assume this is due to not extending GoogleCastActivity. Does that mean I must extend GoogleCastActivity?):

    @Override
    ^
1 error
:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.```

[petrbela]

I've only tested it briefly but you should be able to make it work without extending GoogleCastActivity.

What method is the @Override on?

[petrbela]

To get the Cast button working I think you need to extend either FragmentActivity, GoogleCastActivity, or AppCompatActivity.

Please reopen at https://github.com/react-native-google-cast/react-native-google-cast/issues if it's still an issue.

[petrbela]

Hmm also initializing the cast context in MainApplication instead of MainActivity as suggested by #25 might help. That throws java.lang.IllegalStateException: The activity must be a subclass of FragmentActivity.