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F-Droid TIL thread: What's your favorite obscure feature in an F-Droid app? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
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Is there a feature you've recently discovered in an app available on F-Droid that might not be obvious to casual users of the app? This is your chance to share it!

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[–] 24 points 11 months ago (5 children)

LocalSend can be used to share an app to another device and it'll export & share it as an apk file.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I use local send and it's really great. When it works. Which is about 30% of the time. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I've seen heaps of people recommending it but it just doesn't work for me, most of the time I the devices just don't see each other when they are on the same network.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    If an individual device has a VPN active it won't work. Also make sure the network doesn't have AP isolation turned on.

    Besides that I tried using it at work on their network and it wouldn't find the other device for some reason.

    Besides all that, it works great for me

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    If it's intermittent and you're on wireless, maybe one device is on 2.4ghz and one is on 5ghz? Sometimes the networks are kept seperate.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Should it work going between a wired and wireless connection?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    This is all router dependent or course but the same default settings that prevent devices to communicate betwen 2.4 and 5ghz can also prevent a wired connection from communicating with a wireless device. It's been awhile and it'll be different for each router but I have seen that network isolation enabled by default on a router before.

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