I don't own an Apple device, but the few time I have interacted with Airdrop it has basically been:

• Press button to share something with Airdrop
• Select the device to send to
• target device receives notification to accept.
• Press accept
• Done

And this has just worked regardless of which combination of Apple devices I had available at the time.

In the ideal case this is just as simple for Androids. But I have tried many different combinations of the technologies that was mentioned above and different types of devices, different brands. And sometimes it just works. But way too often I see a failure for the devices to discover eachother, or once discovered the file failed to transfer, with no obvious explanation of why.