Snapdrop is inspired by Apple's Airdrop, but is a Progressive Web App built with Polymer and Web RTC.
Snapdrop is an open source contribution by Nimiq: the Browser-based Blockchain & Ecosytem.
- Polymer
- WebRTC
- WebSockets fallback (iDevices don't support WebRTC)
- NodeJS
- Material Design
- Video Instructions (Big thanks to TheiTeckHq)
- idownloadblog
- thenextweb
- winboard
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What about the connection? Is it a P2P-connection directly from device to device or is there any third-party-server?
It uses a P2P connection if WebRTC is supported by the browser. (WebRTC needs a Signaling Server, but it is only used to establish a connection and is not involved in the file transfer).
If WebRTC isn’t supported (Safari, IE) it uses a Web Sockets fallback for the file transfer. The server connects the clients with a stream.
None of your files are ever saved on any server. Snapdrop doesn't even use cookies or a database. If you are curious have a look at the Server. But it does use Google Analytics.
No. ShareDrop is built with Ember. Snapdrop is built with Polymer. I wanted to play around with Progressive Web Apps and then I got the idea to clone Apple's Airdrop. By doing research on this idea I found and analysed ShareDrop. I liked it and thought about how to improve it. ShareDrop uses WebRTC only and isn't compatible with Safari Browsers. Snapdrop uses a Websocket fallback and some hacks to make Snapdrop work due to the download restrictions on iDevices.
- File bugs, give feedback, submit suggestions
- Share Snapdrop on your social media.
- Buy me a cup of coffee
- Fix bugs and make a Pull Request. This is my first open source project, so I am not very used to the common workflow, but we'll figure it out!
- Do Security Analysis and suggestions
- Install the
npm,bower, andgulpdependencies of Polymer Starter Kitnpm install & bower install
- run
gulp serve - In a second shell run
node index.js
- Thanks to Mark DiAngelo for the Blop Sound