Anyone has a fool proof method? Preferably that does not involve third party apps, or a Foss one.
PS at home I use mixplorer over my home WiFi, but on the go WiFi direct would be useful. I use a Samsung smartphone and lenovo tablet, both on android 14. I can easily connect them, but I never see any WiFi direct option in the share menu (nor Samsung’s quickshare)
EDIT: Enabling Quickshare on both devices then the quickshare icon shows up in the share menu.
Although:
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it asks to deactivate WiFi direct (as Markaos says below, probably so it can decide the best connection type, and probably active WiFi direct on demand)
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it relies on the contacts of the Google account. As I use a dummy and different gmail on both, and Foss apps for contacts, the only way to share is to “allow sharing with everyone for 10 minutes”
So my question remains as to how to use Wi-Fi direct well…directly.
I like LocalSend because it can send folders without zipping them, but it did fail for me once when I was sending a folder with 7000 pics.
But LocalSend isn’t a direct option like airdrop, devices need to be connected to a same hotspot.
I use KDE Connect with my laptop and it just works (Linux with KDE required)
WIFI file transfer, downloaded from pure apk:
https://m.apkpure.com/wifi-file-transfer/com.smarterdroid.wififiletransfer
You have to allow third party apps to install it but then you’re good to go.
I use Superbeam. You can send to desktop too
when there is LocalSend one doesn’t even need to know what is wifi direct.
Warpinator works quite well for me
