@liaizon a nearby share app for macOS, a very sloppy one, as a proof of concept because it's 2021 and we as a humanity still haven't figured out sending files between devices. Just today got it to the point where it was able to complete the (ridiculously complicated) protocol and accept a file from Android.
Here's a screenshot about successfully sending a screenshot through nearby share, sent through nearby share:
@liaizon the protocol isn't quite public, had to reverse engineer it from decompiled play services apk and Chromium sources. And, yes, it's bad. It's 5 layers of protobuf serialization bad.
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@liaizon a nearby share app for macOS, a very sloppy one, as a proof of concept because it's 2021 and we as a humanity still haven't figured out sending files between devices. Just today got it to the point where it was able to complete the (ridiculously complicated) protocol and accept a file from Android.
Here's a screenshot about successfully sending a screenshot through nearby share, sent through nearby share: