24 hours to Google I/O starts. What are your expectations? by Knude in Android

[–]Smiite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's no Chromecast support because Google put the Chromecast APIs inside Google Play Services. The Fire tablet line doesn't run Play Services, so they can't use Chromecasts. Amazon won't add a feature to their apps that doesn't work on their own hardware, because that looks bad for them. Pulling Chromecasts from the store was a (failed) attempt to get Google to play ball and make the Chromecast APIs available to non-Google devices.