Amazon’s Fling is its version of AirPlay and Google Cast

If you’ve been hoping for an AirPlay or Cast-like tool to beam content to your Amazonstreaming gadgets, you’ll soon be in luck. The company revealed its Fling feature this week, a tool that will allow developers to include a way to control media from a mobile device on your Fire TV. Right now, the software will let you send video, audio and still images from an Android or iOS device to the set-top box (or dongle, we’d surmise) for viewing. Devs can also employ “two-way communication” between the Fire TV and a phone or tablet to “engaging second screen experiences.”

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