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

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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

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!

[–] Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

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".

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