Disconnects when inside file browser.

[sebbes333]

Setup: Phone, Android (chrome) ----> PC, Windows (Firefox).

When I try to send multiple pictures from my phone, it disconnects while I'm inside the file browser, so when I press "Ready" to send, then it doesn't know who to send the pictures to, and nothing happens.

After some testing, it seams to disconnect after about 10-15 seconds, even if no picture is selected.

I have some guesses to what the problem could be:

• I assume this has something to do with the browser being in the background for too long & Android does some kind of optimization, but I'm not sure. I've enabled the hidden developer settings in Android, which allows me to specify how many background processes are allowed, but not even at maximum (4 processes, it should be enough with 2 I assume) doesn't make a difference, it still disconnects.

• Alternatively I guess ShareDrop pings each other connection (at about 10-15 second intervals?) to see if they have disconnected, and if it's not responding (because ShareDrop is in the background) then it is disconnected?

• Some other reason?

Anyway, this is annoying & makes it hard to use ShareDrop, even though it's otherwise an awesome program.

[szimek]

Hi! Can't say for sure, but most likely it's the first issue you suggested. What device do you have? I remember having the same issue on an old Android phone, where Android was killing the browser tab in the background and I couldn't select even a single file.

[kchudoba]

I just had the same problem with Chrome on Galaxy S9. I am not sure if it will work, but perhaps playing a video or even audio in the tab could help keep it alive.

[gy-mate]

I have the same issue using Safari 16.2 on macOS 13.1. If I switch to another tab, the browser doesn't kill the whole tab, but it probably cancels some background tasks of the ShareDrop tab, resulting in the other party disappearing from the ShareDrop page and the transfer being cancelled.