Media handling, distribution or sharing, status, future?

[anon46495926]

I saw some interesting and informative (and old) presentation videos recently.

What happened to media handling or distribution; am I right it was too big a job with potential copyright concerns so it was deferred to others?

And why should books have to be attached to reader software for distribution by f-droid? Is there a list of all the offline apps that are essentially as much or more media than software, like: The Light, Quran For My Android, Survival Manual, Forro Lyrics, Sumatora, Aard, and The Life?

Related, what is the best/easiest way to share (media) files from one (android) device to another, locally, assuming at least one has no Google apps? Can f-droid be used to locally share general or media files over bluetooth or wifi, or is that feature coming soon?

[Licaon_Kter]

Syncthing is pretty nice

[ByteHamster]

@anon46495926

what is the best/easiest way to share (media) files from one (android) device to another, locally, assuming at least one has no Google apps?

I like TrebleShot for that (it’s on F-Droid). The app starts a webserver on your device that allows the other person to download the shared files. If both users have TrebleShot, it can also be done from within the app. This is a lot faster than bluetooth and cloud based methods.

[arcanevw]

TrebleShot is great for sharing files over wifi router and the speed is amazing

[hans]

You can put arbitrary files into an fdroid repo and the clients will download it into a local folder on the device. That’s the extent of the media support right now.