Wanting to connect your smartphone to your TV can be explained for several reasons, especially to watch videos or show your photos on a big screen, and even play games.For this there are mainly two methods: with or without wireless.
Watching a series on Netflix or on YouTube with your smartphone or tablet is good if there are two or three, but after a while if you want to show all that to your family the screen quickly becomes too small.The solution is then to connect your smartphone to television to take advantage of the big screen of the latter.
For this you will have two solutions, either with a wire wireless.For the wired solution you will be able to use the MHL or a slimport, in both cases it is to connect via an HDMI cable, there are even smartphones with micro HDMI ports, but they are much too rare and that is not donemore.
For the wireless solution, the most popular is of course Chromecast, but there are other dongs or keys that allow you to connect your smartphone to your wireless TV thanks to the miracast.
Wired solutions to connect your Android device to TV
The MHL solution
L'interface MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link ou, en français, « interface mobile haute-définition ») est poussée par un conglomérat formé par Samsung, Sony, Toshiba et Nokia en 2010.Thanks to this, this is undoubtedly the most famous wired solution of all, but above all the most used by manufacturers.To find out if your smartphone is compatible, I invite you to look at the characteristics of the latter, this is rarely put forward, but in most cases it is written.
The MHL connection can go up to 1080p at 60 images/s and in its current version, the 3.0, it supports 4K/UHD image broadcasting.It takes place via a cable with a micro-USB port on one side and an HDMI output on the other.
But the cables are increasingly rare, because you should know that this connection uses a lot of energy, that's why the manufacturers were now creating a block around the HDMI output with a micro USB port, so you can rechargeat the same time your smartphone.However, check your TV, if one of the HDMI ports indicates "MHL" then no need for a cable with a block, the latter can transmit energy to your smartphone.
In general you will find this kind of MHL port between € 7 and 30 € depending on the quality of the cable, but also its length.
The slimper solution
The slimper is not very far from the MHL, but it is much less supported than the latter, for example the Nexus 4 or the Nexus 7 2013 supports this format.However, he has certain advantages.For example, it supports a wider choice of formats: HDMI, DVI, Displayport and VGA.Rather practical.
In addition it consumes almost nothing in energy we therefore do not need food.As for the MHL it supports 4K provided that you have a compatible TV.The prices are almost the same as for the MHL.
In both cases, you just have to connect your smartphone to the MHL or slimport cable, connect an HDMI cable to the adapter and then connect everything to your TV.Then look for the source you connected all these pretty people and that's.
Wireless solutions to connect your Android device to TV
The miracast solution
The miracast is a free standard developed by the WiFi Alliance consortium allowing the screen of a phone to be broadcast on its effortless television.To do this, the target device must be compatible with it, and therefore have an Intel chip, and will connect in direct WiFi with the smartphone to duplicate its display.
The miracast has for him that it is a universal standard, that is to say that it is not dependent on a brand or even an operating system to function.Also, no limitation is given for its use.
However, it is dependent on a size factor: your television must be compatible with it.Even if smartphones have all adopted it, this is not necessarily the case of manufacturers who timidly integrate it into their solutions, particularly in the entry level.Dongles, however, exist like Microsoft's.
It also has a major defect: it requires that your phone remains on to display the content, just duplicating your video and audio signal.Also, a certain latency is felt and the battery of your phone will necessarily suffer.Effective to watch an episode quickly, but not for daily use.
Generally prices are around 30 €.
The Chromecast solution
Google's magic key is its second version, it currently costs € 39 excluding promotions.It works as well with Android from its version 2.3 that with iOS.To do this, it must be connected to the HDMI port on your television and then to WiFi.Then you install the Google Cast application on your smartphone or tablet and voila.I refer you to this article to make a complete configuration.
The key allows a lot, you can cast your whole screen, but only in some cases, all Android devices do not allow it.The Nexus are all compatible for the rest you have to check either.When your device does not allow it natively, the Google Cast application can force you to caste your whole screen, sometimes the experience is degraded, but this is still possible.
But most of the time, it is to caster applications like Netflix or YouTube or Canal +.Here you will find a top of the best applications for chromecast.The big advantage of this solution is that once you have cast your application no need to stay on it, the chromecast takes over.
These are the solutions available to you to connect your smartphone to your TV, in any case the most popular.If you know others or if you want to share your experience or if you have any questions I invite you to do it in the comments.