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Remove shaka.cast APIs, have UI talk directly to generic receivers #4214

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The Shaka cast APIs predate the Cast Application Framework (or at least our awareness of it). Senders using shaka.cast APIs must also have receivers using shaka.cast. Shaka-based senders that use CAF-based receivers would have to bypass our cast APIs.

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We should drop the shaka.cast APIs and have the Cast button in the UI talk directly to the Cast SDK and to generic receivers. This could (maybe) be done in a backward compatible way if we keep the shaka.cast APIs for a while, either by detecting which SDK is loaded on the sender (v2 or CAF), or by a UI config. But it might be better to make the breaking change upfront and release it as v5 later this year.

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