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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) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/android@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hmm, this one seems like you need to both be connected to the same wifi. Not exactly a Quickshare replacement. I was thinking WifiDirect

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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