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10 years of android and I never managed to share files via WiFi direct

Anyone has a fool proof method? Preferably that does not involve third party apps, or a Foss one.

PS at home I use mixplorer over my home WiFi, but on the go WiFi direct would be useful. I use a Samsung smartphone and lenovo tablet, both on android 14. I can easily connect them, but I never see any WiFi direct option in the share menu (nor Samsung's quickshare)

EDIT: Enabling Quickshare on both devices then the quickshare icon shows up in the share menu.

Although:

  • it asks to deactivate WiFi direct (as Markaos says below, probably so it can decide the best connection type, and probably active WiFi direct on demand)

  • it relies on the contacts of the Google account. As I use a dummy and different gmail on both, and Foss apps for contacts, the only way to share is to "allow sharing with everyone for 10 minutes"

So my question remains as to how to use Wi-Fi direct well...directly.

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  • localsend makes it easy.

    i used it for android to android, android to mac, mac to ipad, &c

    i as a fool can confirm that it's "fool proof"

    • Relies on local network as the name says

      • hotspot works fine.

        one connects to other's hotspot and both can send/receive files. Helps when you're out in the middle of nowhere

        • Could you explain the steps ?

            • enable hotspot on the first device
            • connect the second device to this hotspot
            • open localSend on both
            • send and receive

            i have an always on vpn, so i have to disable rules and conditions for localSend.

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