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spieglt / FlyingCarpet

Cross-platform AirDrop. File transfer between Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows over ad hoc WiFi. No network infrastructure required, just two devices with WiFi chips in close range.
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Incompatible Android Devices #59

Closed Zacrain closed 10 months ago

Zacrain commented 10 months ago

Neither via the Play Store nor via directly downloading the apk an installation is possible.

Google Play Store says the device is incompatibie. When trying to install the apk directly the package manager complains that there was an error parsing the file.

This affects at least my Xiaomi Mi A1 with Android 9 (Android One) and a Shiftphone SHIFT6mq with Android 10.

If there are good reasons that these devices are not supported, it would be good to know the requirements.

spieglt commented 10 months ago

Unfortunately Xiaomi devices do not seem to support Google's LocalOnlyHotspot API which is used by Flying Carpet. Please see https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet/issues/44 for a previous discussion. I'll add a note about this to the readme. Flying Carpet requires at least Android 11, which I would guess is why the Shiftphone doesn't work, though I don't know much about Shiftphone.

spieglt commented 10 months ago

@Zacrain I don't remember why I had to set the minimum API version to 30 (Android 11), but I just compiled it with minimum API set to 19 and it seemed to work. Please try this APK on the Shiftphone and let me know, thanks. https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet/releases/download/v8.0.1/android_FlyingCarpet_8.0.0_minimum_SDK_19.apk

spieglt commented 9 months ago

@Zacrain there is a new version that requires Android 6/SDK 23, please try it and let me know if you're able.

https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet/releases/download/v8.0.1/android_FlyingCarpet_8.0.1.apk