ScreenBox - Digital Signage using Dropbox & Chromecast We've decided to cease development on ScreenBox and incorporate the app into our main product ScreenCloud which supports Google Chromecast, amongst other devices. Check out our Dropbox screen app & start your free trial today. Thanks for all the interest in ScreenBox. From the Chromecast home screen, select your profile picture (top right), then Settings. (Dropbox, Box and OneDrive are also supported if you don't want to use Google Drive). Dropbox Casting Is there any way that anyone in the future or even now (if the SDK has been released to Devs) anyone could make it possible to stream from the dropbox app to my chromecast? It would be so easy to stream semi local content like that, put a video/music file on your dropbox, stream it right from your phone in 2 seconds. Watch IPTV on Chromecast in Chromecast, How to install / Overview Chromecast is a device that you plug into your TV's HDMI port, powered by a USB cable (included). Using your smartphone or computer as a remote control, you can use Chromecast to access video content from Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, the Google Play Store and other services.
You can add your Dropbox folder to the Files app on your Chromebook so you can access files stored on your device and in your Dropbox account in one place. To do so, you must be a ChromeOS user and be signed in to the Dropbox Android app on your Chromebook.
To access your Dropbox account in the Files app:
- Open the Files app on your Chromebook.
- Click the menu icon (it looks like three horizontal lines).
- Click your Dropbox folder.
- If you connected your work and personal Dropbox accounts on your Chromebook, you'll see both folders.
Note: If you uninstall the Dropbox Android app, your Dropbox folder will be removed from the Files app.
What Dropbox features are available on the Files app?
In the Dropbox folder in the Files app, you can:
- Choose between different Dropbox accounts
- Browse your files
- Add files
- Sort files by name/modified time/size/type
- Delete files
- Export/download files
- Create new folders
- See file previews
What Dropbox features are not available on the Files app?
Dropbox Chromecast Extension
You can add your Dropbox folder to the Files app on your Chromebook so you can access files stored on your device and in your Dropbox account in one place. To do so, you must be a ChromeOS user and be signed in to the Dropbox Android app on your Chromebook.
To access your Dropbox account in the Files app:
- Open the Files app on your Chromebook.
- Click the menu icon (it looks like three horizontal lines).
- Click your Dropbox folder.
- If you connected your work and personal Dropbox accounts on your Chromebook, you'll see both folders.
Note: If you uninstall the Dropbox Android app, your Dropbox folder will be removed from the Files app.
What Dropbox features are available on the Files app?
In the Dropbox folder in the Files app, you can:
- Choose between different Dropbox accounts
- Browse your files
- Add files
- Sort files by name/modified time/size/type
- Delete files
- Export/download files
- Create new folders
- See file previews
What Dropbox features are not available on the Files app?
Dropbox Chromecast Extension
Chromecast Dropbox Video
Some Dropbox features aren't available from the Files app. These features include:
- Managing shared folder sharing settings.
- Searching your Dropbox folder
- Real-time collaboration on files (currently, if two people edit a file at the same time, they create conflicted copies)
- Commenting on files
- Recovering recently deleted Dropbox files from the Recently Deleted menu
- Moving files or folders to a folder that you haven't opened yet (some folders aren't listed as possible locations unless you open that folder before attempting the move)
- If a passcode is set up for the Dropbox app, your Dropbox folder isn't available in the Files app
- Accessing files in the Dropbox folder while offline
Dropbox Chromecast Player
While we work to improve the Dropbox integration with the Files app, you can use the Dropbox Android app to access some of these features as usual.
