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Flying Carpet | Cross-platform AirDrop between Android/iOS/Linux/macOS/Windows via ad hoc WiFi

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Cross-platform AirDrop between Android/iOS/Linux/macOS/Windows via ad hoc WiFi

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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)
- 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.
  
  Localsend works reliably via wifi, not sure about this ad hoc wifi, no idea how that works
This seems great, i use localsend but if this adds the option to send from the share sheet I’ll switch over. I just wish the name and domain weren’t so bad and long
I use kdeconnect, but I'm going to give this a try.

Edit: app is not on the Fdroid store.
- Did you refresh ? The app just landed on F-Droid, I got it from here https://fossdroid.com/ with its home page : https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.spiegl.flyingcarpet/
  
  I did refresh. Both links you provided don't work. First one goes to an empty page and the second just comes back here. I got it directly from github, though. I use obtanium.
- Can KDE support air drop between iOS and Android devices?
  
  I don't know about Android to iOS or vice versa, but it definitely works between two Android devices.
  
  Haven't tried it between phones to be honest, but I know the app is available for both Android and ios.
  
  It's not even available for iOS
has anyone had any experience with this one? good, bad, other?
- I couldnt get it to work between macOS and Android. It's also a bit complicated to use, you need to enter a auto generated password and ssid. Not exactly the easy solution I was hoping it to be...
What do you guys use this for?
- Besides bend over backwards to make apple "just work" with all the relatives?
If only this also could be compatible with the Apple AirDrop, so we Linux users can receive files from Apple devices or send files from non-Apple to Apple without having to install something on the Apple device.
- Apple will never support other devices with any of their technology. It's against their ethos on a fundamental level, since their inception.
  
  And the other way around is impossible too? Is it impossible for 3rd party implementations to support the closed AirDrop protocol (through some sort of "hack", I don't know)?

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