Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

Post by notRobot » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 5:52 PM UTC

trackofalljades wrote: post #82

goosedragons wrote: post #14

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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…

Post by happyopossum » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 5:57 PM UTC

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #93

dash2 wrote: post #83

I 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…

Am I missing something? The submission under which you posted this comment literally solves the problem you're complaining about, and directly contradicts the claim "you still have to be on Apple" for this experience.

Post by grecy » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

dash2 wrote: post #83

I 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…

Post by mistermegabyte » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

ElongatedMusket wrote: post #12

FerretFred wrote: post #7

Check out LocalSend - it's multi platform. I use this all the time.

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.

Post by naremu » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 6:10 PM UTC

iforgotpassword wrote: post #90

seized wrote: post #23

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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 ru…