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The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop

The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop

Google’s Pixel 10 works with AirDrop, and other phones should follow later.
Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
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MrSoup
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Linux when?
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B0rax
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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


GitHub - seemoo-lab/opendrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python - seemoo-lab/opendrop
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B0rax
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But NearDrop is not compatible with airdrop, is it?
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EtzBetz
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Oh true. Confused that one. It's basically going the other way around.
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Korhaka
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We can already rsync, why would we want airdrop?
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themurphy
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Because these rules are not about you and me, but are important on a much larger scale.
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Kissaki
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How do you rsync between an android and iOS device? Is it as simple as airdrop?
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Sina
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I just use localsend.
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dev_null
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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
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Lime Buzz (fae/she)
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Okay, but it is a good alternative to it that works cross platform without workarounds.

So yes it doesn't solve that specific problem but it is a good alternative to AirDrop.

Hopefully this workaround is allowed to continue, but we'll see.

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dev_null
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Yeah, which is what I said. It's great, but an alternative solution is an alternative solution. If someone is sharing a file to a group with Airdrop, you are not receiving it with localsend.
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vollkorntomate
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There’s the research project OpenDrop from a few years ago:

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)


GitHub - seemoo-lab/opendrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python - seemoo-lab/opendrop
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FundMECFS
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Upvote for disclaimers like this. We need more people who openly share potential conflicts of interest:)
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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.
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TehPers
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For a feature I'll likely never use, I couldn't be happier this happened. Great job, EU!
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hietsu
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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.
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TehPers
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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~~ soon.

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BCsven
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Android already had WiFi Direct, this change just brings Apple and Android into the same sharing room.
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imetators
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can support


So, it doesn't yet. (?)

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unexposedhazard
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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.
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Kissaki
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Quoting the teaser text

Google’s Pixel 10 works with AirDrop, and other phones should follow later.
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funkycarrot
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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.

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