A developer built Quick Share from scratch for phones Google forgot, and it actually works
A developer has created an open-source app called Bada that allows devices without Google Play Services to use the Quick Share feature. This app implements Google's Quick Share protocol, enabling interoperability with nearby devices that support Quick Share. Bada requires installation and uses a familiar PIN confirmation process for file sharing.
- ▪Bada is an open-source Android app developed by Kyujin-cho.
- ▪The app allows Huawei device owners and others without Google Play Services to use Quick Share.
- ▪Once installed, Bada enables file sharing with any nearby Quick Share-equipped Android device on the same Wi-Fi network.
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Google’s Quick Share is the kind of feature you don’t think about until the day you need it and your phone simply doesn’t have it. Huawei device owners live in that reality permanently, given that they don’t have access to Google Play services, and so does anyone running the Chinese regional build of Android. However, a developer with the handle Kyujin-cho just published an open-source Android app called Bada on GitHub that seems to solve exactly this problem. It does so by implementing Google’s own Quick Share protocol from scratch, circumventing the lack of Google Play Services.
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