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bogdanw

macrumors 603
Original poster
Mar 10, 2009
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Recently, Google released “Nearby Share Beta for Windows, an app that helps you share files between Android devices and Windows PCs”.

Someone made a version for macOS
"NearDrop is a partial implementation of Google's Nearby Share for macOS.
The app lives in your menu bar and saves files to your downloads folder. It's that simple, really."
https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

Google:
Mar 31, 2023 "Share files easily between Android devices and Windows PCs"
https://blog.google/products/android/nearby-share-windows/
"The New Nearby Share Beta App for Windows"
https://android.com/better-together/nearby-share-app/
Aug 04, 2020 "Instantly share files with people around you with Nearby Share"
https://blog.google/products/android/nearby-share/
 

XRayAdamo

macrumors newbie
Sep 9, 2020
20
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I have made changes for this app, but author doesn't want them, so I have forked repo here
https://github.com/XRayAdam...
The difference is that you can switch between notification and popup alert, automatically open safe files, accept text and URL in a way Android is accepting these types of data.
For example, URL will open popup with ability to Open/Copy and for text you can Copy or Save to file
 
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