I always found sharing files from my Android phone to my Mac a pain. I wanted to have a way to share my photos, videos, documents etc from my phone directly to my MBP, without having to upload anything to the 'cloud' or some messaging app. Those ways tend to be less secure and fairly slow.<p>Because of this I made this little app you see on the video that enables you to share the files directly from your phone to your laptop. I have been using it for a while now for personal use and it works really well!<p>The app was recently made available to everyone. You can try it out for free via https://ubidrop.com<p>Happy to answer any questions you might have.
Your app is appealing and kudos for building it. But I have 3 questions:<p>1. How is it different from using KDE Connect (Android) -> Soduto (Mac)? What is it doing differently?<p>2. Can I use this app offline that is, without internet connection. If yes, then how?<p>3. I see that this is a paid app. Are you planning to add other features too? (Find my phone, browsing files remotely on my phone, incoming call notifications etc.)
Sharing files from Android to any computer is a pain.<p>If you ever need to transfer lots of files (for example while making backups), my recommendation is to use an FTP server app on your phone and then download the files on your PC (explorer.exe has native FTP support but use can use Filezilla or a different FTP client too).
I use VLC on iOS to transfer files from Android and PC. VLC offers a handy network share which basically starts an HTTP server. The devices on the same network can then access that URL and from there onwards it is just drag and drop of folders and files.
It’s amazing to see you’re building and growing Ubidrop, Alex.<p>I spent a few months using Android and then went back to iPhone because it’s so hard to get Android OS working with MacOS. So many incompatible or non-smooth integrations between them.<p>Glad to see Ubidrop exist. I bet it will improve life of an Android user a lot.<p>Congrats on the launch. Dan
Its remarkable how a-social "ecology" owners are, when it comes to making it easy to do things into or across ecologies. So, I can imagine an iPhone and a Mac do this better, but my goodness, the lack of motivation to make it simple for an Android and a Mac. or rinse and repeat for an iPhone and a chromebook.<p>"not my problem" and "hey, what if I said we sell more units inside our ecology if we make this a walled garden" come to mind.
Your app is appealing since I use Signal to send my files .. the hustle is having to download from Signal desktop. And for image files I have to change ext to .zip in order to prevent compression.
Have been using Snapdrop (<a href="https://snapdrop.net" rel="nofollow">https://snapdrop.net</a>), but product demo on the homepage of ubidrop looks compelling.
For those who can hack around a bit, Tailscale + KDEConnect can help you to send files from Android to any device (and vice versa) even when not in same network.
I've just been using AnyDrop.io, no application, just a website that works over local wifi to share files. I use it a ton if I can't use airdrop.
I feel your pain! Currently using Snapdrop[1] but will check out Ubidrop.<p>[1] <a href="https://snapdrop.net" rel="nofollow">https://snapdrop.net</a>
I'm testing Ubidrop on Pixel 3 (latest OS update installed).<p>"App update is needed to send to that device".<p>Hmm what, so I'm not installing the latest APK?
I use Syncthing with a "Documents" folder for that. All the stuff I want to keep goes there. Photos go in a different folder that is also synced with Syncthing.<p>When I want to send a file, I just put it in Documents. Works over WiFi or internet. Bonus: the file is replicated on a server, so it's available <i>and</i> in an easy to find location.
why can't you just use <a href="https://www.android.com/filetransfer/" rel="nofollow">https://www.android.com/filetransfer/</a> ?