Phone File Transfer

2021

Java, Android SDK, Local Network, REST

Always having to plug in your Android smartphone to your PC to exchange files becomes quite tiresome after some time. Only having seen FTP servers or internet-constrained solutions on the store, I’ve decided to create my own solution that would run on a local network and give the phone user the power to select the files they want to share and to accept the requests from other devices, while using the HTTP procol, removing the requirement of having a FTP client on the device we want to transfer the files to.

Challenges

• Learn more about Android development
• Multi-Threading some processes (e.g - Zipping, Request handling)
• HTTP requests
• UI design

Future plans:

• HTTPS for secure connections

App Screen with Request to transfer files to that device.

Client webpage information.