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Flying Carpet | Cross-platform AirDrop between Android/iOS/Linux/macOS/Windows via ad hoc WiFi (f-droid.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Localsend works reliably via wifi, not sure about this ad hoc wifi, no idea how that works

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I never heard of that, is this a thing present on AOSP and Linux?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Ad-hoc wifi networks are old, they just aren't usually used for much