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this also gives you wifi speed actually. thanks for webrtc.
Many things give you wifi speed, if you're connected to wifi. With Airdrop, if you are on the moon and meet a stranger there who also has an iphone, you can perform the high-speed transfer of large files.
If you already use Tailscale, Taildrop [1] works great. [1] https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop
I wanted to use this, but reading the documentation, my understanding was that with tailscale data goes through a server. Am I understanding it correctly? EDIT > This makes it a great solution for sending sensitive or large files without third-party servers in the middle. It clearly says the opposite. I don't know where I got that idea from.
There is a coordination server that sets up the initial connection, but after that both devices are connected directly to each other.
I'm not a big fan of having to pay once for every computer I want to use something on. I'm just 1 person. Also, making it free for Android but not PC seems... Wrong.
All 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.
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It uses Bonjour [1], which has an LGPL reimplementation named Avahi [2] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) [2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)
For the sake of being picky, Bonjour is not a radio protocol (Layer 1), it’s a set of tools which enable zero config networking (Layer 2/3)
All 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.
> create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Every Android device I've used has had "Send via Bluetooth" functionality built in. Is the WiFi connection just significantly faster or does it provide other additional benefits?
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You can create a hotspot and start a HTTP server. Scan a QR code to connect to the hotspot, then a QR code for the file URL. It's easy and works with any device with Wifi access. For the server, on Android I use "Share via HTTP". On desktop running a lightweight HTTP server is easy too. Edit: Apparently that sounded complicated, here is how I can share a file from my phone to any other phone in the same Wifi. - Click…
Let me just teach my mum how to run a HTTP server and generate QR codes to send me photos of our lunch /s
The device then will do the "run a server with the file, create the QR Code for access, display it". Your mum has no need to learn how to run it, just how she doesn't need to know anything about how airdrop works to use it.
All 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.
> create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Every Android device I've used has had "Send via Bluetooth" functionality built in. Is the WiFi connection just significantly faster or does it provide other additional benefits?
Apple Watches used to update over Bluetooth and it would take hours, literally. And someone discovered a trick to turn off Bluetooth to force it to update over Wi-Fi, and then the download took just minutes.