Curious seeing this basically right next to the Airdrop for Android post. I guess today we’re doing airdrop studies.
Imo this is a direct response given the other post costs money.
Who cares about money? Being free seems much more important.
Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
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Re: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
#12All of these "alternatives to airdop" don't seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Airdrop isn't just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren't connected to an existing network of that speed.
this also gives you wifi speed actually. thanks for webrtc.
Re: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
#13Do you guys actually share this much locally?
I have my local sync'd to my cloud storage and just pull it down if/when I need it. I'll just email/text people around me if they don't have airdrop compatibility.
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#14"We're really sorry, but your browser is not supported. Please use the latest desktop or Android version of Chrome, Opera or Firefox." I am using the latest Firefox though
I ran into the same error. Works after re-enabling WebRTC in Firefox.
Re: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
#15All of these "alternatives to airdop" don't seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Airdrop isn't just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren't connected to an existing network of that speed.
So Wi-Fi Direct?
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#16Re: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
#17All of these "alternatives to airdop" don't seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Airdrop isn't just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren't connected to an existing network of that speed.
Apple usually does excellent integrations between their devices. But I haven't used AirDrop so I'm not familiar with how it works: in order to create an ad-hoc wireless connection, if the devices were already connected to some wifi access point, are they temporarily disconnected for the duration of the ad-hoc connection?
If not, I'd guess that Apple devices maybe come with 2 WiFi adapters inside?
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#18Do you guys actually share this much locally? I have my local sync'd to my cloud storage and just pull it down if/when I need it. I'll just email/text people around me if they don't have airdrop compatibility.
I'm trying to learn how to use Tiktok (yes, I know, I'm sorry) and other social media and cross-posting isn't really great and some platforms pretty much force you to post from mobile devices or vice versa (Tiktok, Instagram for mobile, LinkedIn for desktop web), and I need to pass source videos from mobile to editors on PC and back and forth for posting on the different media.. It's a big of a mess, I'm kinda sure there are crossposting services out there already, but it works for me so /shrug!
Re: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
#19I would recommend pairdrop [1] which works even in situations when you have Apple Private Relay or a VPN.
Re: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
#20Do you guys actually share this much locally? I have my local sync'd to my cloud storage and just pull it down if/when I need it. I'll just email/text people around me if they don't have airdrop compatibility.
For videos, yeah. When I'm in a room with friends, and one of them is already connected to their TV, it's much quicker to airdrop a large video file (say, 500MB) than it is to send it up to the Internet and have them download it. Aside from the better bandwidth, it's also much faster from the time I tap "Share" to the time it's appearing on their device.
For gifs or a funny photo or whatever, yeah I'll just text it.