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Cool project but it's not remotely a clone of AirDrop. AirDrop is one of those things that can only be done by Apple, at least on iOS. I have many apps that hav

Cool project but it's not remotely a clone of AirDrop. AirDrop is one of those things that can only be done by Apple, at least on iOS. I have many apps that have "documents" on iOS. I can select them in the app, pick "Share" and then pick "AirDrop" and send them to my Mac. AFAIK I can't do that through this. I go into those apps, select some files and pick send to Safari and I get an error, Safari doesn't support the files. I go into Safari and pick some file but Safari or iOS doesn't let me browse the files of other apps. Maybe it's possible to make a native iOS app you could send the files to that would use same WebRTC protocol but going the other way, Mac to iOS device seems impossible. Where as I just tried it via real AirDrop. I choose a file on my Mac in Finder. Picked Share->Airdrop. Selected my iPhone. I was given the option to open the file which then gave me a list of all apps that I could send it to. I picked an app and the app's folders appeared. I chose a folder to save it to and then ran the app to check it worked. It did. I supposed Mac to iOS you could make your native iOS app the target and then from there select the files and "share" them with other apps on the phone.

OkGoDoIt 6y ago
Seems like it would be a cool side project to create a minimal iOS app that simply acts as a share target for this. Similarly for android and Windows. That would make it much easier to send. You’d still have to either visit the site or scan the QR code to receive, but making sending smoother would be a dramatic improvement. AirDrop is one of those things that is truly wonderful in how easily and simply it works, but makes me really annoyed with Apple for not opening it and allowing it to be cross platform. Android had something similar for a while but it barely worked, and Google never put any effort into making an iOS app (which obviously would not have been as good as native, but better than nothing). Bluetooth itself has a function of airdrop-like sharing actually, but it was mainly used for spam and it’s basically nonexistent in modern mobile Bluetooth stacks. Something like AirDrop that truly works well cross-platform but wasn’t easy to spam would be so wonderful.
- rvense 6y ago
  There is a very new web standard for registering your site as a sharing target. It only works on Chrome and I assume Apple won't be rushing to implement it. https://web.dev/web-share-target/ https://web.dev/web-share-target/
- jooize 6y ago
  I want an app in the Share menu of macOS that enables me to send content to any executable (e.g. shell script). Services menu isn't the same and too many steps to set up.
  - toomuchtodo 6y ago
    Not exactly what you're looking for, but I do something similar with https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/ https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/

OkGoDoIt 6y ago

Seems like it would be a cool side project to create a minimal iOS app that simply acts as a share target for this. Similarly for android and Windows. That would make it much easier to send. You’d still have to either visit the site or scan the QR code to receive, but making sending smoother would be a dramatic improvement. AirDrop is one of those things that is truly wonderful in how easily and simply it works, but makes me really annoyed with Apple for not opening it and allowing it to be cross platform. Android had something similar for a while but it barely worked, and Google never put any effort into making an iOS app (which obviously would not have been as good as native, but better than nothing). Bluetooth itself has a function of airdrop-like sharing actually, but it was mainly used for spam and it’s basically nonexistent in modern mobile Bluetooth stacks. Something like AirDrop that truly works well cross-platform but wasn’t easy to spam would be so wonderful.

rvense 6y ago
There is a very new web standard for registering your site as a sharing target. It only works on Chrome and I assume Apple won't be rushing to implement it. https://web.dev/web-share-target/ https://web.dev/web-share-target/
jooize 6y ago
I want an app in the Share menu of macOS that enables me to send content to any executable (e.g. shell script). Services menu isn't the same and too many steps to set up.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Not exactly what you're looking for, but I do something similar with https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/ https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/