Doesn't qualify as a "Show HN" - it's already been posted twice in the past few years and there's been no updates for more than a year [0]. Sounds like an attempt to get a few clicks by labelling it as "Show HN".
Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
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#42KDE Connect has been around for at least 5 years : https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/ . It is quiet amazing and does way more than only file transfert : clipboard sharing, multimedia control, ping, messages, remote keyboard/mouse, etc.
I tried to use it with my linux laptop but it didn't work. It assumes you're in the same wifi and that the usual broadcasting works, right? This is not what airdrop does.
Airdrop is fast and works by physical proximity. You don't need to be in the same wifi, just near each other. That's what makes it so useful, otherwise I could just use a cloud solutions as I usually have internet access when I'm in a wifi.
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#44Oof! A very cool thing, solving a real problem I have, but if you're taking feedback on pricing: I could never justify paying for local filesharing. I've been this close to building my own version of something like this, multiple times over (and actually built a browser-based one as a way to learn .net core when that first started), because - like I said - it's a really handy utility. But I could only justify paying…
Also, there's snapdrop[1] that does almost the same thing, for free, without the need to install anything. It'd probably be wiser that snapdrop were a native application; then it's dev would not need to pay to host the client application anywhere.
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#45Well, nearby share(soon to be called quick share [1] already exists, and works pretty well.
1. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-nearby-share-renamed...
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#46Oof! A very cool thing, solving a real problem I have, but if you're taking feedback on pricing: I could never justify paying for local filesharing. I've been this close to building my own version of something like this, multiple times over (and actually built a browser-based one as a way to learn .net core when that first started), because - like I said - it's a really handy utility. But I could only justify paying…
The chase for subscription revenue is destroying a lot of potentially-great software. Not just in pricing structure, but in how software is designed in the first place. Compare this to something like Magnet, which is great software that I use almost every time I turn on my wife’s MacBook and costs $2. Once. My guess is the people who made Magnet just aren’t getting rich off of it, but maybe we shouldn’t expect to get…
> The chase for subscription revenue is destroying a lot of potentially-great software.
Phone OSes aren't nearly as well-optimized for backwards compatibility. Speaking as someone who works in this field, your phone app is almost never "done." Once you hit publish, you're signing up to continue providing updates for the life of the product. I've got binaries from the 90's that will run on Windows 11, no issues. But apps? Forget it, we just had to publish an update to a racing application for Android for literally no other reason than the binary was old and google said so, or we'd lose our Play store listing until we did.
And in the process of doing that, while changing basically nothing you actually use as a user of that app, we had to update several permissions-seeking dialogs to be compatible with newer versions of Android, along with some changes to how we share files. You might notice the second one if you look hard. That took one of our developers about 4 days of work, and a fair amount of testing after that.
Like, you can hate the game, I certainly do, but the way both Apple and Google go about arbitrarily changing and updating the OS, you just have to update your apps, which takes labor and time. And we have no mechanism to gate updates behind price tags. So like, I get the frustration, I really do and I share it a lot of the time. But I also understand the economics at play here and I won't ask someone to work for free for me.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I resonate with this. I can even stomach the JetBrains subscription if I rationalize that this is the equivalent for paying again for e.g. the 2024 edition. And they are good about letting you continue to use the software as of your last paid update. I can’t rationalize paying monthly or even annually for something I expect to continue working exactly the same. Continued development on something like that almost guar…
> except in the cases where the monthly subscription is paying for supporting infrastructure How do you feel about cases where there is supporting infrastructure, but that infrastructure is artificial and just designed to allow subscription fees?
Hard to make a blanket statement here, but if I get absolutely nothing out of it then it’s probably a hard pass from me.
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#48KDE Connect has been around for at least 5 years : https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/ . It is quiet amazing and does way more than only file transfert : clipboard sharing, multimedia control, ping, messages, remote keyboard/mouse, etc.
> KDE Connect has been around for at least 5 years : https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/ . It is quiet amazing and does way more than only file transfert : clipboard sharing, multimedia control, ping, messages, remote keyboard/mouse, etc. I also love KDE Connect; the clipboard sharing is so unobtrusive it feels almost magical. It takes less effort to copy and paste across my devices than it does between only Emacs and V…
>It seems to be not yet possible to share entire folders with KDE Connect
KDE Connect expects you to mount the phone's directory to transfer folders, a decision I will never understand. You can use globbing to send every file in a folder though.
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#49KDE Connect has been around for at least 5 years : https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/ . It is quiet amazing and does way more than only file transfert : clipboard sharing, multimedia control, ping, messages, remote keyboard/mouse, etc.
I tried to use it with my linux laptop but it didn't work. It assumes you're in the same wifi and that the usual broadcasting works, right? This is not what airdrop does. Airdrop is fast and works by physical proximity. You don't need to be in the same wifi, just near each other. That's what makes it so useful, otherwise I could just use a cloud solutions as I usually have internet access when I'm in a wifi.
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>Both devices need to be on the same WiFi network or Hot Spot to be able to see each other.