Using Nearby Connections for KDE Connect

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I’ve been working on a linux fork of googles Nearby library (along with nearby connections, fast pair and quickshare) on my github ( GitHub - kidfromjupiter/nearby: 🔗 Linux implementation of Google's Nearby Connections, Nearby Presence, Fast Pair and QuickShare · GitHub )

I think using Nearby connections on the Kde connect android side as well as the linux side might benefit the usability greatly since we’re not on the same lan connection all the time. Nearby connections allows us to use bluetooth BR/EDR, LE, wifi lan, wifi aware (whenever wpa_supplicant releases proper support for it) and more

My linux fork isnt fully mature yet but im working on it but the android side is mature enough. What are your thoughts on this?

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Nearby is something I have had my eyes on the longest time. This technology seems great and having a backend for KDE Connect will be neat. Even if we dont use it for actual transmission, the improved pairing flows would be great!

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Thats what I was thinking as well. For very low bandwidth connections, it is perfect. At least, BLE advertising and discovery would be game changing.

And notification / clipboard sync over BLE would be amazing as well since it’ll theoretically work without a connection.

Id love to give this a proper shot. As soon as I find out how to contribute to kde connect lol.

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