Source, for the Obtainium users
Pretty cool, the advantage over LocalSend is likely, that no Wifi network is needed.
(With localsend this can be circumvented by creating a hotspot on one device and using that in the other. And Localsend has a well made Flatpak)
Thanks for sharing. I didn’t realize that localsend also works on iOS, but I guess the more the merrier for open source quality and choice development.
Localsend works reliably via wifi, not sure about this ad hoc wifi, no idea how that works
Ad Hoc is like the real AirDrop. It creates a Network between the two devices that gets disconnected afterwords. The Advantage is that you dont need wifi or to activate a hotspot.
I never heard of that, is this a thing present on AOSP and Linux?
Ad-hoc wifi networks are old, they just aren’t usually used for much
I use kdeconnect, but I’m going to give this a try.
Edit: app is not on the Fdroid store.
Did you refresh ? The app just landed on F-Droid, I got it from here https://fossdroid.com/ with its home page : https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.spiegl.flyingcarpet/
I did refresh. Both links you provided don’t work. First one goes to an empty page and the second just comes back here. I got it directly from github, though. I use obtanium.
it opens the F-droid listing just fine here.
I don’t know then. I got it on Obtainium, though.
Can KDE support air drop between iOS and Android devices?
I don’t know about Android to iOS or vice versa, but it definitely works between two Android devices.
Haven’t tried it between phones to be honest, but I know the app is available for both Android and ios.
It’s not even available for iOS
This seems great, i use localsend but if this adds the option to send from the share sheet I’ll switch over. I just wish the name and domain weren’t so bad and long
has anyone had any experience with this one? good, bad, other?
I couldnt get it to work between macOS and Android. It’s also a bit complicated to use, you need to enter a auto generated password and ssid. Not exactly the easy solution I was hoping it to be…
What do you guys use this for?
Besides bend over backwards to make apple “just work” with all the relatives?
If only this also could be compatible with the Apple AirDrop, so we Linux users can receive files from Apple devices or send files from non-Apple to Apple without having to install something on the Apple device.
Apple will never support other devices with any of their technology. It’s against their ethos on a fundamental level, since their inception.
And the other way around is impossible too? Is it impossible for 3rd party implementations to support the closed AirDrop protocol (through some sort of “hack”, I don’t know)?
It’s already been done: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
There are two problems:
- Apple is able to make airdop so seamless because they ensure their devices support a special feature, wifi direct: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/428700
- Nothing stops apple from just changing how airdop works to break the open source version’s compatibility.
Possibly but Apple would just “patch” it.
