How about an android version of warpinator?

[Brody]

I don't know how realistic this is, but I'd like to see an Android version of Warpinator so that I could quickly transfer pictures from my phone to my laptop and PC.

Currently I can use bluetooth, which takes like 5 minutes to transfer just 1 picture, so that is not feasible when I got many pics to copy. Or I can upload to google drive then download with my laptop, but that is kinda clunky and annoying, and I shouldn't have to waste bandwidth to transfer files around on my own network. Or I can connect my phone to my laptop with a usb cable, but I hate hunting around for a usb cable and I shouldn't have to use cables in 2020.

An app that runs on my phone that can see all computers on the same wifi network that are running warpinator so that I could simply send the file over wifi would really be useful.

Is this at all feasible?

[ugly]

Try KDEConnect.

[Brody]

I don't want to install KDE or its many libraries/dependencies though.

[luggw1]

I've found KDE Connect to be sufficiently buggy when I was using KDE as to be unusable. It would keep dropping the connection almost as soon as it connected.

What the original poster suggests is interesting to me as well.

Thanks for listening.
Bill Lugg

[Mick-Cork]

I don't know how realistic this is, but I'd like to see an Android version of Warpinator so that I could quickly transfer pictures from my phone to my laptop and PC.

Is this at all feasible?

It is now (released on the Google Play Store)

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4054

[luggw1]

Just installed in on my S10+ and transferred a couple of photos. It worked great!

Thanks to whomever did the work on this.

Bill Lugg

[Todd]

Warpinator worked well on my ageing S7. Successfully transferred some pics from the phone to my laptop. Took a moment to figure out why I wasn't able to make a connection... I hadn't clicked on the "Update firewall rules" within the Warpinator preferences on my Mint laptop. Once I did that, the connection was made, and the transfer was easily done.

[I2k4]

I'm also able to transfer from a Moto phone and Lenovo tablet to LM20.1 PCs, but the Android device screen for selecting a local folder (internal or microSD on phone, single "adoptable" storage on tablet) always fails. On app launch the prompt pops up asking to select a folder, the file manager appears with blue "Select" button but it does nothing and the screen requires a lot of back-peddling to get out of the (useless) file system. Unlike other apps the system prompt for storage permission never appears, and manually toggling the permission in the Android Apps Settings has no effect.

On this basis it might be handy for one-way image and video transfers from the phone to PC, but wondering if others are unable to move from PC to device. (I'm not wanting to open a support ticket, with obligation to go back and forth about rarely used software - hoping they'll get to it in development.)

[AndyMH]

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4054
there is now an android version.

[ajgreeny]

Does the Android version need warpinator installed on the PC as well as the Android phone?

Can it be used on any other Linux distro or is it Mint only?

[I2k4]

Does the Android version need warpinator installed on the PC as well as the Android phone?

Can it be used on any other Linux distro or is it Mint only?

The Play Store listing also has a GitHub address with more info:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... warpinator

AFAIK, a Warpinator client has to be installed on both the sending and receiving devices - not sure if it works on other than Linux Mint PCs. (As above, on my Androids it's only working one-way, which may be handy but not full function.)