Quick and easy content sharing is now an option between two Android 6.0 or above smartphones and eventually with Chromebooks.
(Image: Google) Google has spent years developing a very quick and easy way to share content between two Android devices, and it’s finally cracked the problem. Daniel Marcos Schwaycer, a Product Manager on Android, announced Nearby Share yesterday, describing it as “a platform to enable reliable and easy sharing across thousands of Android phone models and billions of people.” Sharing content on Android until now has meant searching for a contact, attaching a file to a message, and sending it, but Nearby Share is meant to replace that process entirely. It works by showing a list of devices “in your proximity” with which content can be shared. Tapping someone on the list will inform them you want to share a file and they can accept or decline the request.
