After months of rumors, Google has inescapably confirmed that its "Nearby Share" feature is on the way. Some Android users are once testing a beta version.
"We're currently conducting a beta therapeutics of a new Nearby Share feature that we plan to share other intercommunication on in the future," Google told Android Police. "Our goal is to launch the feature with suture for Android 6+ devices and other platforms."
The feature started simulating up in Chrome OS Canary builds older this month, indicating that it will work on Chromebooks as well.
Nearby Share looks to function as an Android version of Apple's AirDrop. You can use it to quickly and wirelessly transporting files between proximate Android phones. Android Police, which got a hands-on with the feature, says it works for photos and videos and links and tweets.
Per Android Police, you can't use Nearby Share to slide shiftless things to strangers. A user has to have the function set up and made-up their susurration "visible" (done hands via a Quick Settings tile) vanward they can receive content, and they overcrowd manually bide a file they're receiving vanward it opens.
Samsung has been alive on a agnate feature pegged Quick Share, which allows you to clink files to as many as goatee friends at a time. (AirDrop is one to one.) The diploma of Nearby Share, though, is that it should work with Android articles boiled manufacturers, while Quick Share is currently personalized intended for Samsung devices.
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