Open Source app to quickly share files between Google Certified and Non-Certified android devices (i.e. Custom Roms)? (Similar to quickshare / nearbyshare, but without Google)
Because Bluetooth is sooooo slow yawn
Edit: And I already tried OTG. Its slow as fuck because of the USB 2.0 bottleneck makes it take 3 hours whereas Quickshare would've taken like, idk maybe 15 minutes or less. Ironically wireless is faster, but I also need it to work for non-certified / custom roms.
LocalSend maybe. (Not sure about the custom ROM part)
Hmm, this one seems like you need to both be connected to the same wifi. Not exactly a Quickshare replacement. I was thinking WifiDirect
Is this really a showstopper? You could use a hotspot.
Just dropping https://pairdrop.net/ here. Works on the same network or via the internet. There is an app, but it would also work in the browser on literally any device.
So the way hotspots work, is if you want to transfer (without going through the internet) files between device A and device B, you need a device C to host the hotspot, then have A, B connect to it. If you use A to host the hotspot, then B connects to A's hotspot, A still wouldn't be "on the same local network" as B. Its weird.
Well, what we mean by "on the same network" maybe more complicated then it sounds if a device has multiple network interfaces and a non-trivial routing such as any modern smartphone that smartly switches between wifi and cell. It's plausible that various apps and devices have a different behaviour which network they treat as local/standard.
However, I just tried it out with two Samsung Androids. One is a hotspot and has no other wifi. The other one uses the hotspot (and no other wifi obviously). Then lauching pairdrop, they can "see each other" (through broadcast packages I assume) on the local network. During testing the hotspot device had internet access through 5G, so both devices could reach paridrop.net, but I believe, this is not needed while in local network mode. At least the file transfer itself should not go through the internet in this mode.
I had similar a similar experience with syncthing. Sure, the hotspot is a hack and neither super reliable nor super fast on most phones, but at least my phone does not seem to block access from/to the hotspot device.
Posting here to see if anyone comes up with a WifiDirect client that’s platform agnostic.
you can try out copyparty: https://github.com/9001/copyparty
not exactly a drop in replacement, but it works on nearly every device.
KDE Connect? It also works with non-Android devices like iOS and all three desktop systems. It’s what I use to transfer files between my iPhone and my computer.
I’ve had a good experience with localsend between iOS/macOS/Linux desktop, but it’s overall platform agnostic and natively built for everything.
Localsend
Are you sharing files between the same devices often? Then syncthing might be useful here. You can set it up to keep a local folder in sync between multiple devices using you local wifi. If you are sharing to new devices frequently, then it's too much to setup for your use case.
How about PairDrop?
It's even selfhostable!
PairDrop
i usually use total commander wifi send, copyparty or scp on termux
The last time I used bluetooth to send files from device to device was in high school in the 2000s. It was painfully slow then, too.
These days I use KDE Connect to link my PC and phone.
What's your specific use case?