Reminds me of Pushbullet back in the day
Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
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Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#82Maybe you should update the text on your front page: > Why not use Android file transfer? > Android File Transfer is Google's tool for transferring files from your Android to your desktop. > The tool has not been updated in a long time and feels dated. > Also, it is 2022 and the future is wireless. It's not 2022 anymore, and Google just released an update to their Nearby share called Quick share. Or rather, they're a…
You also ONLY need Android File Transfer on Macs because Apple is too shit to implement MTP and wants to cripple non-Apple devices. On Windows/Linux/BSD you just plug in your android device and it works. A lot of devices support USB 3 speeds too so transferring is fast and not miserable unlike most iPhones and iPads. They also have a Nearby Share app for Windows that lets you use Nearby Share on Windows. Would be nic…
Hey, if you don't mind a question...I need to help a friend back up all the photos off an Android phone and have had a lot of difficulty doing it on my Mac for the reasons you've stated. I do have a Windows notebook at work, are you saying if I plug the Android phone into a ThinkPad, it will just show up like a drive and let me copy photos?
It's critical that the photos (thousands of them) keep their original EXIF data and filesystem dates, and the methods I've found to get them onto my Mac don't accomplish this.
Thanks for any advice!
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#83I find it so insane that in 2023 you still have to be on Apple to have the following experience:
* I have a file on a device I own.
* I wish to send it to another device.
* I send it.
On Windows, it is still regularly true that the easiest way to send X from one laptop to another one, FIVE FEET AWAY, is via Dropbox or Gmail.
This was technically easy twenty years ago. It's a concrete proof that collective action problems are alive and well in software.
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#84I find it so insane that in 2023 you still have to be on Apple to have the following experience: * I have a file on a device I own. * I wish to send it to another device. * I send it. On Windows, it is still regularly true that the easiest way to send X from one laptop to another one, FIVE FEET AWAY, is via Dropbox or Gmail. This was technically easy twenty years ago. It's a concrete proof that collective action prob…
It doesn't help that google is actively blocking ad-hoc Wi-Fi on Android.
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
You also ONLY need Android File Transfer on Macs because Apple is too shit to implement MTP and wants to cripple non-Apple devices. On Windows/Linux/BSD you just plug in your android device and it works. A lot of devices support USB 3 speeds too so transferring is fast and not miserable unlike most iPhones and iPads. They also have a Nearby Share app for Windows that lets you use Nearby Share on Windows. Would be nic…
Hey, if you don't mind a question...I need to help a friend back up all the photos off an Android phone and have had a lot of difficulty doing it on my Mac for the reasons you've stated. I do have a Windows notebook at work, are you saying if I plug the Android phone into a ThinkPad, it will just show up like a drive and let me copy photos? It's critical that the photos (thousands of them) keep their original EXIF da…
I'm not who you asked, but yes this is correct. If the photos are from the phone's camera they will be in the DCIM folder. There is also a Pictures folder that stores photos downloaded from other apps. At least, that is how my Pixel Fold is.
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
You also ONLY need Android File Transfer on Macs because Apple is too shit to implement MTP and wants to cripple non-Apple devices. On Windows/Linux/BSD you just plug in your android device and it works. A lot of devices support USB 3 speeds too so transferring is fast and not miserable unlike most iPhones and iPads. They also have a Nearby Share app for Windows that lets you use Nearby Share on Windows. Would be nic…
Hey, if you don't mind a question...I need to help a friend back up all the photos off an Android phone and have had a lot of difficulty doing it on my Mac for the reasons you've stated. I do have a Windows notebook at work, are you saying if I plug the Android phone into a ThinkPad, it will just show up like a drive and let me copy photos? It's critical that the photos (thousands of them) keep their original EXIF da…
That's exactly how it works.
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#87Check out LocalSend - it's multi platform. I use this all the time.
It's not an Airdrop competitor if it doesn't even meet the basic requirement of Airdrop - to be able to arbitrarily send a file to someone without being on the same network.
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#88I've been using NearDrop, which is open source, for this use-case:
https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop
The most annoying thing is you can't share clipboard text easily, only files or links. Does Ubidrop address that?
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#89Luckily there are free alternatives.... like https://file.io
Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, I've been emailing myself photos in Gmail 5-6 at a time like a caveman for the past several years... any app I tried was a non-cross-platform disaster or cost too much and had major feature bloat. This looks dead simple.
SyncThing is a much better solution for that too. For SyncThing-Fork has better options for controlling syncing based on network, battery level, etc.
What sucks is that there's no foolproof way to make sure it keeps running. Not so much of an issue for a techie, but I tried to use it so my mom's photos keep getting backed up, and I have to remind her at least once a month to start it again. And that's despite having all the energy saving stuff disabled for the app, and having Autostart allowed. I don't know whether there's still some heuristic to kill apps that run in the background and haven't been interacted with in X days or something.
And then, at least on my phone, it rarely seems to goof up when the app starts the actual syncthing process. Syncthing-fork then just keeps showing "syncthing is starting up" on the status page and the battery drains quickly. It's still the best solution imo to have your photos reliably get backed up no matter where on this planet you are without resorting to Google/$PHONE_MANUFACTURER Cloud.