> KDE Connect has been around for at least 5 years : https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/ . It is quiet amazing and does way more than only file transfert : clipboard sharing, multimedia control, ping, messages, remote keyboard/mouse, etc.

I also love KDE Connect; the clipboard sharing is so unobtrusive it feels almost magical. It takes less effort to copy and paste across my devices than it does between only Emacs and Vi on my desktop!

It seems to be not yet possible to share entire folders with KDE Connect, so I use Syncthing for that, which is also polished in its own, somewhat different way (more technical to use but optimised for large amounts of data).

>It seems to be not yet possible to share entire folders with KDE Connect

KDE Connect expects you to mount the phone's directory to transfer folders, a decision I will never understand. You can use globbing to send every file in a folder though.

I tried to use it with my linux laptop but it didn't work. It assumes you're in the same wifi and that the usual broadcasting works, right? This is not what airdrop does.

Airdrop is fast and works by physical proximity. You don't need to be in the same wifi, just near each other. That's what makes it so useful, otherwise I could just use a cloud solutions as I usually have internet access when I'm in a wifi.

When I see comments like this one, I think that we should do Show HN posts like: 'I intend to build an app Airdrop-for-Android, what are the most important features' ;-)

It feels like very often when I see a Show HN project, the HN comments point out some critical missing feature.

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>Both devices need to be on the same WiFi network or Hot Spot to be able to see each other.

I didn't see that, too bad!

KDE Connect has definetly made my life easier in school. I could just photo scan files with my phone and drop them on my 2in1 for editing. KDE Connect does require all devices to be in the same network, however, for which I needed to create a hotspot to get that "just works" feel

For me, KDE Connect for Android worked flawlessly, but I had to stop using it because of the battery drain it caused. (That was some years ago.)