Nearby Sharing entire folders is possible now

MargotRobbie , 11 months ago

Neat.

Nearby Share has been a mess for me compared to the experience I have with Airdrop that I usually just get out the USB-C cable for file transfer instead, hopefully this will make life easier and give people more options.

AlmightySnoo OP , 11 months ago

One downside is that it’s Windows-only at the moment AFAIK. I’m on Arch Linux and for now Snapdrop (an open-source PWA working just from your browser) does the job for me.

Izzy , 11 months ago

I wonder if is possible to connect two Android devices with a USB-C cable and share files between them.

quortez , 11 months ago

I've done it; results are...flaky at best, YMMV

I can't tell if it's just my cable or my Pixels being... Pixels, but transferring from one to the other had frequent dropouts, elevated temps, high drainage, and sometimes disabled USB transfer until you plugged and unplugged again.

Might not be an issue on flagships or other OEMs but idk

Teocyn , 11 months ago

Nearby share is awesome, but I’m eagerly waiting for a Mac client. Or a chrome client for now would be fine as well. So still using LocalSend for now (which has clients on most platforms).

AlmightySnoo OP , 11 months ago

that’s a cool app, it has a Flatpak and is on AUR too!

kratoz29 , 11 months ago

Have you heard about Neardrop?

Teocyn , 11 months ago

Yes, actually used it for a while until I wanted to send a file to my phone. Unfortunately it can only receive files. But thanks for the suggestion!

kratoz29 , 11 months ago

Oh yeah, that is a big downside.

bappity , 11 months ago

android has been making big strides lately! hope this momentum keeps up!