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setting up local networks is so trivial compared to forcing everyone to buy an Apple gizmo.
True. But I mean these are photos (from strangers that you aren’t even willing to exchange phone numbers with?). It is a really non-essential feature anyway, so most likely everybody who doesn’t have an Apple device skips it.
Recently started using it, it works really well and it's much more reliable than AirDrop. But the UX could be improved. But I just wish Apple fixed AirDrop, every time I go to use I have so little confidence in it, it often doesn't see devices or if you have multiple Mac users it will confuse them, showing you the same Mac device twice without telling you which user it is
I'm curious, what do you people use this for? What are all these (presumably large) files that you guys are generating and transferring, that requires the use of apps like these? Like in my case, the only files I generate on my phone are photos and videos, and these get backed up by Immich, which I can then share with someone by sending them a link to the files/album in question. I imagine normal folks would use iClo…
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That's why we worked very hard to create the ultimate, nothing held back tool and recently launched it. Works across any device/user/platform. UI, CLI, Local network, over the internet, anything. P2P + E2EE. https://zynk.it
Not interested in an over-over-the-internet solution. What makes Airdrop good is that it's local.
My problem is that all these alternatives require the devices to be on the same local network. One beauty of Airdrop is that it creates and handles that local network automatically under the hood (as far as I understand). So you could be out on a hike with friends and Airdrop something. The workaround I've found after switching to an Android device has been to teather my connection to my friend's device, which ends u…
Been using Localsend to transfer bigger files between phone / laptops, never fails or has trouble finding a device, or stalling.
It doesn’t solve every edge case but I don’t need it to.
My problem is that all these alternatives require the devices to be on the same local network. One beauty of Airdrop is that it creates and handles that local network automatically under the hood (as far as I understand). So you could be out on a hike with friends and Airdrop something. The workaround I've found after switching to an Android device has been to teather my connection to my friend's device, which ends u…
https://mbarlow.github.io/thinair/ Device to device transfer, just a static github page. gh repo: https://github.com/mbarlow/thinair Creates QR codes for each device to scan for webrtc. Android to android will do an audible chirp that lets the devices know to switch from qr code mode to opening the camera to scan each others codes. Tested android to apple and working, the audio chirp doesn't get caught by apple. Just…
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This. Localsend may be very useful for a set of devices you control or influence. The USP of Airdrop is ad hoc sharing with people you don't really know. Classic case is meeting strangers on holiday and you want to swap some photos of the trip you're on. One or both of you doesn't have data or time to install anything, or it's just too hard to persuade someone they should install random app. Pairing Bluetooth or sett…
> With Airdrop you have trivially easy, "just works" sharing with people in proximity. Funny enough, I encounter so many problems trying to share things via AirDrop with friends, family, and even my own Apple devices that I just tell everyone to install LocalSend and I find that things work better. I’m not sure why that is, because AirDrop used to work pretty well for me. But it’s been an exercise in frustration more…
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I think nowadays on Android it's called QuickShare, and it works. But I believe the fragmentation and awareness is a part of the problem for Android.
Can't QuickShare cross-platform. My wife has an iPhone and my desktop and laptop are linux, so QuickShare is a non-solution for me.
Hi, I am late to the party, but I was also building in this space in the last year, Basically I did a peer to peer filesystem named keibidrop: https://keibidrop.com/ I made it public last week. It does what local send does, but also via WAN. Still did not launch the mobile apps. And 1 up is that it has also a virutal filesystem that is synced both ways. repository is here: https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop The c…
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They didn't. Apple contributed the core logic to the Wi-Fi Alliance to build Wi-Fi Aware, which they now also support.
So, should there be apps that use it to transfer files between iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac without requiring them to be on the same network?
As for WiFi NAN: support for it seems rather limited outside of iOS and Android. From what I can tell the feature is barely tested on Linux and I can't find any generic Windows APIs for it either.