Drag and drop is coming to Quick Share on tablets (AssembleDebug)
It could also be useful for other large-screen devices — such as foldables — and Android's long-awaited desktop mode.
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- In the new beta for Google Play Services, we spotted an unannounced drag-and-drop feature for Quick Share on Android.
- This is already supported on Windows, but Android support would benefit tablets and other large-screen devices.
- While it’s clear the functionality is a work in progress, it doesn’t actually work at the moment.
Quick Share — formerly known as Nearby Share — is a tool for easily sharing files between two devices that are not physically connected. The easiest way to think about it is like AirDrop but for non-Apple systems. Quick Share works on Android phones and tablets, Chromebooks, and Windows PCs, making it an essential tool for anyone not in the Apple ecosystem. Today, through an APK teardown, we found evidence to suggest that Quick Share is about to get even better.
In the latest beta for Google Play Services (24.34.32 beta), we found evidence to suggest Google is working on a way to enable drag-and-drop functionality within Quick Share. Those of you using Quick Share on Windows will already be familiar with this: you simply open the Quick Share app and then drag the file you want to share over the device with which you want to share it. When you “drop” the file on the device’s icon, the app pushes it to that device. It’s super simple.
