Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help Google has linked Android’s wireless peer-to-peer file sharing tool Quick Share to Apple’s equivalent AirDrop. Both tools allow users to share files, but until now only natively within their respective ecosystems. Quick Share therefore allows Android users to swap files or share them with ChromeOS devices. Air Drop allows …
Apple has blocked Google's Quick Share from using AirDrop. (that's me speculating)
Seconds out round 2.
Google is advertising the hell out of the Pixel 10 by focusing on its camera features and the ability to buy a replacement cushion after your dog ate the first one. If the dog ate the first one won't it do the same to the second or is that being too simplistic?
There is nothing there that screams 'Buy Me'. I'll carry on using my 2nd hand iPhone.
I am running a Pixel 3a XL and a OnePlus 5, both on LineageOS 22.2 Android 15.
I wonder when I will get this.
p.s. I find holes in the LCD to be aesthetically distasteful, so I hope to be running my Pixel for many more years. I have a Pixel 6 loaded with Graphene, which is extremely challenged in aesthetics both with the OS and the LCD hole.
The free LocalSend app allows me to quickly and easily share files wirelessly between devices running Android, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Windows. (Only my legacy 32-bit Windows machines running XP are left out of the fun.) Why would I bother with something which runs only on a more limited ecosystem (Quick Share or AirDrop)? You've been dusted again, Google.
Because it would be something built into both iOS and Android, which is always easier than having to install an app.
If they've got it working on Android I hope it gets ported to Linux. It would be nice to be able to share files between my Linux PC and my iPhone without having to plug it in. I hardly ever have to do that but maybe once a year it comes up. That's the only reason I ever plug a USB cable into my phone other than for charging.
I’ve used the Files app for years, on my iPhone.
I have smb shares on my Linux server and windows workstation.
Load Files.
Connect to server, smb://host or ip
Enter credentials.
Saved for next time.
Maybe it works with nfs, too. To be honest I’ve never tried.
Saves using a cable.
Once you’ve connected and saved your smb share, you can also quickly send photos from the photos app.
Once photos are selected, share, save to Files, select the smb share, done.
Hope this helps, if you weren’t previously aware.
(Typing from memory, so wording may vary slightly, or in a different region)
EDIT: just noticed you specified copying from Linux to iPhone. Sorry.
But you can still access files on the Linux pc via files, if you copy them to a shared directory on the Linux system.
Should drink more coffee before thinking of replying!
It would be nice to be able to share files between my Linux PC and my iPhone without having to plug it in.
Kdeconnect can do that.
M.
> "The free LocalSend app allows me to quickly and easily share files wirelessly between devices running Android, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Windows"
Yes, and basically every bluetooth implementation I've come across in the last 20 years will also do all of that. But using Quick Share or AirDrop will be easier and more secure.
Why apple refuse interoperability is beyond me though.
There are standards. OBEX - either OBEX Push or OBEX FTP
From phone I can hit share, select bluetooth. From PC right-click on bluetooth and select 'receive file'. Very similar process the other way around.
As the article states, this was a protocol built for InfraRed and ported to bluetooth, which gives you an idea as to how old it is.
“Technology should bring people closer together, not create walls.” says Google.
So why do we have to build our own walls using ad-blockers and script-blockers just to be able to use the web without it being a nightmare of intrusive data-stealing, profiling and ad-slinging?
Let's just look at the protocols that Google has been involved in developing and supporting http/2, Brotli, WebRTC, WebM/WebP, RCS, HTML5, Kubernetes, Android, WideVine,…
Yes, they nearly ultimately support the kind of open web that lets them sell advertisting and collect data, but credit where it's due: we no longer need plugins for audio or video, including group calls, or to produce media.
I always thought the Chocolate Factory was Go (golang) shop ?
Wasn't Go originally developed there ?
Go is garbage collected so ought to be as memory safe as Rust, I would have thought.
All that I can imagine is that their developer diddums wanted to play with same shiny toy as the other boys and girls.
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