AirPlay/DLNA Receiver Pro Android App Review
You can now end thinking as regards AppleTV. Make use of your Android device or phone (Android TV/Set-Top Box/Mini PC are favored) to receive videos, pictures, and music wirelessly from many devices. AirPlay/DLNA Receiver Pro app is available for download from Google Play for $4.99.
Features
Once AirPlay/DLNA Receiver Pro app for Android is started it runs in the backdrop waiting to receive the media you send to it from another device. Just like you would for a DLNA/UPnP enabled TV or AppleTV or use your Android Phone/Tablet/PC with a well-suited DLNA/UPnP app/program (i.e. iMediaShare, BubbleUPnP, etc) to send media unswervingly to or stream from a home media server (i.e. Serviio, PS3 Media Server, etc) to AirPlay and DLNA/UPnP Receiver installed on your Android device or phone. Your AirPlay and DLNA/UPnP Receiver device will show up in your supplementary devices app/program as “ITV@” followed by a number. This is the identifier you will send your media to by means of your other devices. Follow your third party app/program instructions on how to send media from them.
Either AirPlay or DLNA is just a media controlling procedure, and it just sends the playback address to the inner media player on your device. So the presentation depends on the compatibility and steadiness of your hardware player. It may not work so well either if your wireless router is too old. If you install it on Android 3.1 or greater, please do run this app at least once after installation or update, then the AirPin auto boot service can be registered to the Android system. It doesn’t presently support mirroring, but the developer says it will be added in a future update. When it’s added, it will have an advantage over similar apps which does not support mirroring. There are now 6 dissimilar AirPlay apps compatible with the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. AirPlay/DLNA Receiver (PRO) appears to have an upper hand over the rest.
Conclusion
AirPlay/DLNA Receiver for Android is not a media server. It is a DMR (digital media renderer/receiver) only. It requires the use of other apps/programs to send media to it via AirPlay/DLNA/UPnP to play. All devices must be on the same network to function properly. Only complaint is that after about 15 minutes of streaming music from a Mac, it infrequently stutters for a split-second before resuming to play the audio. It’s as if it’s “refreshing” the stream or something.
Category: Android Apps
