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- cross-posted to:
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This is a personal passion project of mine, it is still in its early infancy (many core features are still missing) and the development is slow but deliberate.
why should I care?
if you care about speed and deep integration with the OS this project might be of interest to you.
why?
Wireless file sharing between my devices is still unnecessarily slow, half-baked, and unintuitive. Direct-Share is my attempt to build a file transfer tool that makes local file transfer more seamless than:
- Android ↔ Android (Nearby Share / Quick Share)
- Apple AirDrop
- LocalSend
- Blip
…but for Linux desktops and Android phones, using Wi-Fi Direct.
what?
- Python, GTK4/Libadwaita on Linux
- Kotlin, jetpack compose on Android
if you want to stay up to date with the project or want to know or read more, you can take a look at the GitHub repo
I don’t want to take away your steam, but doesn’t LocalSend already do that?
https://github.com/localsend/localsend
I’d love it if you contributed instead, if these projects are really interchangable as I think they are.
Love your work anyway!
Unfortunately it doesn’t, Localsend relies on a WiFi hotspot or AP to transfer files, what I am trying to build uses WiFi Direct (aka WiFi P2P), these two are not interchangeable nor interoperable.
Why not build that into Localsend instead of developing a separate solution?
The honest answer is because I prefer making my own thing for my own exact problem over trying to make someone’s else tool do or behave in a way that it is not designed or made for, it is a bit philosophical for me but yeah, I am not willing to put all the effort into something that I see is solving a problem and making compromises and ignoring things in ways I don’t agree with, not to mention the UI/UX disagreements I have, if localsend was my thing, it would have been very different from what we have right now.
And also I am doing it in spite, this thing have been bugging me for years and no one is willing to put the time and effort to do it the way I think it should be done so I am doing it myself…
I deleted that. I read your Goals and I think I understand why they are different now. Cool project
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LocalSend doesn’t use wifi direct which means your devices have to be on the same network for the transfer. WiFi direct is more like AirDrop – “direct”.