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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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There’s the research project OpenDrop from a few years ago:
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
(Disclaimer: I had a student job at SEEMOO and wrote my thesis there, though I was not involved with OpenDrop)
Upvote for disclaimers like this. We need more people who openly share potential conflicts of interest:)
Is this really a case of conflict of interest though?
It’s a potential one. Rather people flag anything that could be a conflict of interest, whether they think it is or not. Than be silent about it.
I just use localsend.
Which is great, but it doesn't solve the interoperability problem of being able to AirDrop files between someone's iPhone/MacBook and your Linux/Android
Same.
It’s only a matter of time now
/edit: there seems to be This one however it is the „old“ standard reverse engineered. Should still work
There is also neardrop
But NearDrop is not compatible with airdrop, is it?
We can already rsync, why would we want airdrop?
Because these rules are not about you and me, but are important on a much larger scale.
How do you rsync between an android and iOS device? Is it as simple as airdrop?
No idea, never had an iOS device
For a feature I'll likely never use, I couldn't be happier this happened. Great job, EU!
AirDrop is IMO one of the most useful and straightforward things there is on iOS. Or what do you have that is better than ”just select the things you want to send, click share and select the person near you”? No app installs no nothing, unless the person you are sending to is a total stranger, when they have to briefly allow device visiblity to anyone. Sure you can do this over the internet with many apps you both might have in common but that is totally different than sharing with WiFi speeds.
Android already had WiFi Direct, this change just brings Apple and Android into the same sharing room.
I never need to send files or data from my phone to someone else's phone. All the files I care about are on my PC.
I'm not saying AirDrop or Quick Share are useless. I'm saying I don't use them, but do understand they're used, and I'm glad the support exists now.
But Quick Share isn't actually part of AOSP is it? :(
Looks like everyone will have to implement this for themselves and it'll be a mess.
can support
So, it doesn't yet. (?)
Quoting the teaser text
Google’s Pixel 10 works with AirDrop, and other phones should follow later.
The manufacturer of the phone obviously needs to actually implement it. So if your phone is old and not using an up to date OS or if they just disable the feature, then it wont work.