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OS: iOS
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Deprecate Chromecast support in Chrome iOS

Project Member Reported by ghendel@chromium.org, Aug 7

Issue description

ChromeCast will be removed from Chrome iOS, aiming for M-70 release. 

This is due to a few reasons:
-Extremely low usage of the feature
-Even lower usage now that YouTube has deprecated mobile web support for ChromeCast
-Continual high testing burden for keeping ChromeCast supported
-Potential for Xcode 10 (new version) to cause many bugs because of the previous integration of ChromeCast

This is an open bug tracking the issue
 
Issue 872046 has been merged into this issue.
Cc: olivierrobin@chromium.org
Cc: justincohen@chromium.org
Owner: olivierrobin@chromium.org
olivierrobin@ we've disabled ChromeCast for M70, but the source code is still around.  Do you know all the different areas that need to be removed?
I think based on the last thread with the cast folks, let's just keep it disabled for now and not delete any code. 
Cc: linds...@chromium.org
Labels: -M-70 M-72
olivierrobin@ is this something you can take on? Also if M-72 is too late (branches on Thursday) just let me know and we can aim for M-73.

Also, the Cast team will turn off via server-side switch subsequently as well.
Yes, disabling it is probably a few (<10) lines of code
Disabling is easy (something similar to https://chrome-internal-review.googlesource.com/659835)

Removing is somewhat more complex, as there's lots of js bits that can be removed that I'm not familiar with.
Labels: -M-72
olivierrobin@ 
In your discussion with the Cast team, you mentioned that we shouldn't remove Cast support on our side before the server-side removal discussed. Can we still disable this on the Chrome side before server-side removal, or should we wait? 

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It sounds like the host change will happen in time for M73?  In that case, should we make this m73 rbs?
Labels: ReleaseBlock-Stable M-73

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