One of Apple’s strengths is the ecosystem they’ve managed to create among their products. It’s not just about the interaction between your devices or how easy it is, for example, to pair your headset with an iPad, iPhone or Mac at the same time; ability to send files from one device to another.

At Apple, this system is called AirDrop. and it usually works great. This was something Android was missing, but they’ve slowly moved with Nearby Share between Android devices and more recently between Android and Windows PCs. Now some developers have launched Mix of NearDrop, Nearby and AirDrop To transfer files between Android and Mac We have tested it and we will tell you how it works.

NearDrop, the first pillar of the Android + Mac ecosystem

If you own a Mac, you’re probably already familiar with AirDrop, but here’s a rundown, just in case: it’s an app that appears on both Mac and iPad or iPhone for sharing documents (photos, videos, a PDF, whatever). is an option. ). whatever) between Apple devices. It can be between an iPad and an iPhone, between two Macs… whatever you need.

If you want to transfer files from an Android mobile phone to a Mac, you should resort to solutions like Telegram; these files on the computer.

Everything made simple with NearDrop. The first thing you need to do, of course, is to download the app on Mac. Simply download ‘NearDrop.app.zip’ via this GitHub link. Open the application and click on the compressed file with the left mouse button and click ‘Open’.

This is the correct way to open it, not the usual double click. As an application from outside the App Store, you must tell the computer that yes, you want to open the application at your own risk.

If this window doesn’t appear or what you’re doing is dragging the app to ‘Applications’all you have to do is go to ‘Privacy & Security’ in ‘System Settings’, scroll down and select ‘Open anyway’ where NearDrop says it can’t be opened.

Once this is done, a window will pop up asking you to grant notification permissions. Again, if this window does not open, you should go to ‘System settings’, ‘Notifications’ and enable NearDrop notifications.

There is your permission request and the icon that will appear on your Mac from now on.

This is necessary because every time we send a file from mobile, a notification will appear at the top right of the desktop on Mac so we will accept the submission manually. When everything is ready, the app icon will appear in the top bar..

It’s time to send files from mobile phone. In this case, all you have to do from a Galaxy Z Flip 5 is select a file or a set of files (you can use them in bulk, yes), click the “Send” icon and select “Coming soon”.

Automatically and as if we were using Nearby Share, the name of the Apple team will appear and when selected, A notification will come that we have to accept the transfer to the Mac. It’s that easy, airtime is almost instant, and it works like a charm. And what you send will be saved in the download folder.

You don’t need to enter the PIN, it just appears as a security method. All you have to do is accept the cargo.

The downside is that it doesn’t work in reverse.. That is, we cannot send files from Mac to Android device as the app does not have the interface that Nearby Share for Windows has, but this issue may be fixed in future updates.

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