I’ve used all of these except packet and localsend.
Warpinator: your firewall is closed open it. It’s a fine app, insecure mode is a bit like airdrop for Apple devices, send files to any unsecured warpinator instance on your network.
KDE connect: calling this a file transfer app is like calling a Corvette a radio. Like, yeah it does that but that’s not the point. If ALL you want is file transfer, there are smaller apps. S’good shit though, check it out.
Syncthing: idk maybe I’m dumb but I didn’t get it. Felt like it was for backups, could never access my files on the destination device after transfers despite verification that they are in fact where I put them. Maybe a weird permissions issue?
Localsend is absolutely my go-to. It is awesome.
iOS, computer, android, whatever, it just always works and is fast and everything is extremely user friendly.
I essentially stopped using kdeconnect except for its automatic clipboard and notifications.
Syncthing is a bit more complicated to set up, but that is what I use for “file sync” which in my view is different than file sharing which is different than file hosting like next/owncloud.
It’s bizarre that you have to go through such lengths to do it w native Linux also like scp or rsync; they’re both Linux!!!
Android run on top of Linux. Once upon a time it was a Java VM sitting on a Linux kernel, it’s roots are still there though it’s blown up quite a bit since then.
It’s not entirely incorrect to say Linux is somewhere between a bootloader and a bios for Android.
I’m aware and I HATE it since you have to root it just to use scp/rsync effectively.
With termux ,i can access my storage space,and use scp normally .no root.
i just tried it and i’m not able to access any of the files i created nor any of the files that already exist on my phone; what am i missing?
termux-setup-storage Try that comand
That’s the part I missed!
Thank you!!!
