LocalSend!
Works flawlessly, on windows, linux and android (and others) and you can send files, folders, text, or eadily paste your clipboard.
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Just use Telegram Saved Message feature and send files to yourself This pipeline works for me since it was released
Airdroid? Provides a WebUI to browse your phone, send and receive files, and e. g. write SMS if you're into that.
FTP Server option of Solid Explorer. Works great on Home Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agrEOg7X0c0
Works also with Windows Explorer
Croc
Phone to computer and back, I always use tailscale plus any file manager.
Then you can browse your files and grab whatever whenever you need to off your computer
if you have the app/feature on both devices, QuickShare.
on Linux, there's RQuickShare, which lets you use QuickShare on Linux
idk what beaming is but I made https://dro.pm/ for sending files between any OS combination
Supports command line also in case you'd like to beam from there as well (of course wget to download, but if you curl|head the domain you also get instructions for uploading)
I use FX on Android to connect to my shared drives on windows and my file server, and Nextcloud for syncing stuff. Looking to replace Nextcloud though because it's a little heavy for just that function and is kind of janky sometimes due to permissions issues on Android when trying to access the files with other apps.
I used airdroid in the past. It can also mirror your PC onto your phone and vice versa.
I don't know how it is these days, mustve been ten years ago that I used it.
Airdroid was aweaome. But they went and enshitified the thing.
The best app
kdeconnect worked very well for me to transfer between phone platforms. interface is pretty intuitive. ios app doesnt save settings and crashes when you try checking them but it works anyway. one of my oldest fantasies with the smartphones is being able to directly share music between phones with friends nearby and this app seems to make it begin to be possible.
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Localsend!!
First, buy a domain. Then, set up a server, then a hypervisor on the server, then set up a reverse proxy, punch a hole in your firewall, set up MFA, set up a container, install docker, set up NextCloud using a docker-compose, set up accounts and a client on the devices... Simple!
I actually tried to do port-forwarding, but i think my ISP really locked down their routers. None of the normal ways of logging into my router work.
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Also KDE connect but I just learned you can send more than one file at a time through it.
- From Android to Linux Desktop: select files then the share button then send to [Your PC Name here] via KDE connect
- Both ways: select Remote Filesystem and just move or copy files around in the file browser.
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Another one for KDE Connect. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html It works on everything. Linux, Android, Windows, macOS, iOS, SailfishOS(?). I use to to share files from phone to my laptop, laptop to Steam Deck.
LOCALSEND
It's an app for your phone and another app for your computer. Works good. It's how I do it. Uses wifi I think
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