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Instantly share files with people around you with Nearby Share for Android
- dstaley 6y agoI was really disappointed to see that it's not an open protocol (at least not yet). It would have been awesome to add this functionality to Windows and Linux desktops.
- Xlythe 6y agoThe underlying stack (Nearby Connections) is open sourced on GitHub[1]! This stack is what handles the negotiation between Bluetooth/WiFi and chunks the files while sending. There's a couple protos on top of Connections that are specific to Nearby Share, that handle identity and file metadata (eg. mimetype) that aren't a part of this repo. Those are being merged into Chromium first, but may eventually become their own library. Nearby Share was written originally in Java, so the C++ port is a bit less mature. But hopefully having something out there is better than nothing. If you decide to take a look, do leave feedback. We monitor the GitHub page and I'm active on StackOverflow if you use the google-nearby tag. [1] https://github.com/google/nearby-connections https://github.com/google/nearby-connections
- Xlythe 6y agoHey, it's my project! :) I led the development of Nearby Share since its inception in 2018. Feel free to ask me any questions.