Apple has AirDrop, Android now has Quick Share.
At CES 2024 Tuesday, Google announced Quick Share, a collaboration with Samsung for a unified method of sharing for Android and Chromebook devices. For several years now, Samsung and Android have used their own features for sharing, which have worked across devices, but not completely.
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The new Quick Share looks to bridge the divide and bring all the best sharing features from the Google and Samsung services to more Android users.
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Google and Samsung announce a new way to share files
To be clear, Quick Share isn’t new. Samsung has had Quick Share since 2020, and Android has had its unique sharing feature, Nearby Share, since about that same time, but the two companies are now collaborating on a singular cross-Android sharing method under the Quick Share name.
Although the two existing file transfer protocols are similar, there are several major differences between Quick Share and Nearby Share. Samsung created Quick Share for Samsung devices only; the sharing feature doesn’t work with other non-Samsung Android devices (without some workarounds). On the other hand, Google’s Nearby Share is available for all Android devices, including Samsung, but some features available in Quick Share are missing from Nearby Share, like sending files to multiple devices at once.
Luckily, if you’re…
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