airdash VS flutter-webrtc

I've only built small apps such as airdash, but always felt that the state management libraries such as Provider felt overly complex. Once I learnt about how to use ValueNotifier & ValueListenableBuilder I have started using it instead and will not look at libraries again until I ran into I find myself writing a bunch of boilerplate etc.

https://airdash-project.web.app/ AirDash is surprisingly good

Sounds great! I made Airdash, a file sharing app that enables the easiest way to get a file from one device to another. Personally use it for getting screenshots from an android device to my Mac.

I created Airdash in flutter (a simple desktop and mobile app for sharing files with any device). It worked pretty well and would definitely do it again for simple desktop apps that also has a mobile component. Heck I would even use it for desktop only apps if I needed support for anything else than macOS. Can't comment on the web experience, but I would personally not hesitate on trying it as long as I didn't need SEO support.

While waiting for official windows support for firestore I decided to use firedart in AirDash for some simple things

The file sharing app AirDash uses flutter_webrtc to send files. Note that it only uses data channels so no camera or media integration. It uses Firestore for signaling. For a simpler example although less complete you can look at the simple_peer library as well. It also only supports data channels right now however.

Thanks. Yeah, likely going to be a lot of edge cases when doing cross platform bluetooth. For now I've been able to discover and send some small data packets to nearby devices on iOS/macOS (as can be seen in this playground). Fortunately my use case is only transmitting device name and id. I'm thinking of using this as a way to pair nearby devices more easily in Airdash.

There is examples of how to use the Play Store API, Apple App Store API and Microsoft Store API here if you are interested https://github.com/simonbengtsson/airdash/tree/main/tools.

Or you can of course also test by manually installing the apk from the latest release available here: https://github.com/simonbengtsson/airdash/releases/tag/v2.0.130

Created a free and open source file sharing app.

https://github.com/simonbengtsson/airdash

I only had a brief glance, but I believe that this is your best shot at the moment. Kudos to Weiwei Duan ( https://github.com/cloudwebrtc ) for his hard work. He contributed this code, which I found when looking at his filed issue: https://github.com/flutter-webrtc/flutter-webrtc/issues/799

To be honest I don't know exactly how it works. I use the flutter-webrtc library for the data transfer. Should note that u/imdeadinsidelol managed to do cross platform local networks in the Arc app. I would love to understand how he accomplished that!

You’re looking for webRTC, FTP is just File Transfer Protocol. You are going to have to setup a TURN server for your webRTC app if this is going further then your LAN and a learning project. You could also look at websockets(central server), VoIP. https://github.com/flutter-webrtc/flutter-webrtc https://webrtc.org/

I found this thread in flutter-webrtc repo, but it led to no concrete solution.

You could checkout https://github.com/flutter-webrtc/flutter-webrtc as alternative

Andriod/iOS/Web/Windows/macOS/Linux: https://github.com/flutter-webrtc/flutter-webrtc

Hey HN,

I work on https://github.com/pion/webrtc and have been meaning to try out flutter. Using https://github.com/flutter-webrtc/flutter-webrtc I was able to pull something together that works on Android, iOS and native. Best of all is that I wrote/prototyped in the web. My hope is that between this and Pion we can make WebRTC may more accessible.

If you are familiar with WebRTC these are some of the features that excited me.

* Trickle ICE

* Re-negotiation

* Multiple inbound/outbound tracks per PeerConnection

* No codec restriction per call. You can have H264 and VP8 in the same conference.