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by tjoff 827 days ago
That's why many only use Bluetooth to create an ad-hoc wifi network and do the transfer on that instead.

Airdrop even requires bluetooth.
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fddrdplktrew 827 days ago
why not do straight up ad-hoc wi-fi?
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pastage 827 days ago
It is easy to do Bluetooth discovery between apps on Android/ios. I have not seen the same for wifi.
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fddrdplktrew 827 days ago
that's because Google actively won't implement it... not sure why but there was issues with "thousands" of comments requesting it (because it is part of WiFi standard). Not sure about Apple.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36904180 (won't fix, obsolete, according to these mofos)

https://i.imgur.com/xei98fy.png (who the fuck knows how many more comments it would have got if they didn't block commenting)

It was implemented once on Cyanogenmod thought...

A lot of the posts about this have been de-indexed from Google Search too.

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