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Karuppiah Natarajan, Novice. Love Connected Devices. Love Networking in
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Updated Feb 9, 2016
If you are asking about the implementation. Well, I have created a file sharing app myself.
It's all about networking concepts. There is a receiver and a sender. One of them creates a
WiFi hotspot. And the other connects to it. Now a local network is formed. Both will have IP
addresses. Now, sender can select a file and then click send. The file is transferred through
TCP and the receiver is identified by the IP address ( TCP - I m guessing it. It's because when
I tried UDP myself, many packets were lost. Many. )

Now, the high speed part, well, the file is actually sent in chunks, and the progress is shown
based on how much chunks are sent.

Share It app optimizes the chunk size I suppose and i suppose it also optimizes on reading
the file at sender side and writing file at receiver side. I don't know how. I m experimenting
on it, for my app and have some extra features to add.

But I have created my app with simple concepts and I have achieved speeds up to 6 MB/s .

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And the maximum link speed when connected to an android hotspot, is usually 65 Mb/s
which is about 8 MB/s ( note the 'b' and 'B'. B - Byte. b - bit. ) , may be there are devices which
have better WiFi NIC cards that provide better maximum link speed. So, even if you utilise Related Questions
the full bandwith, and send the file, it will be sent at about 8 MB/s speed. So, I think, in my
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devices. I mean, it's based on WiFi signal strength. That's why I used the word "maximum"
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2. Reading speed of the internal storage or sd card, where ever the file is stored ( at sender
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the app from using full bandwidth. I am yet to recheck and confirm using network
analyzers. But I think I am right about this guess. This is the only explanation I could find Android Application Development: How do I develop a
for drastically varying speeds for different transfer sessions, while I transfer files between file sharing app in Android?
the same devices. So, this is the guess. Like, when a receiver connects to a sender's hotspot,
some of the apps in the receiver which are running in background, will detect this WiFi ( Is there any application for sharing pics from gallery
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they detect whenever network state of the device is changed ) and think it's an Internet
connection and will try to send requests to their servers to get data for showing
notifications, but only after trying to send a good amount of requests, it will understand
that there is no Internet connection. And will stop trying to send requests. There will be
many apps like this. For example Whatsapp, Hike, YouTube, etc. Since these requests are
trying to be sent , it actually uses the bandwidth of the connection and our sharing app will
not be able to use full bandwidth.

If you are an android app developer and you want to know how to code and stuff. First, you
gotta learn socket programming in Java, and try them at PC level. Then learn how to
implement network operations in Android, you can't just put in the Java code that you tried
at PC level , you gotta use threads or services and do some extra stuff. Ask me if you are into
such stuff and want to know more.

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Sumitkumar Maji, developer
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ShareIt app creates a virtual wifi hotspot from the sender phone.And by scanning the bar
code of another phone ,it allows the receiver phone to connect. As its a peer to peer
connection,thus logical speed can get upto 10 MBPS.The wifi hotspot can transfer the data
via wifi using the P2P connection and thus its very efficient to transfer data as the speed gets
pity high

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Gaurav Sant, I am a novice in android development world
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The app uses Wifi P2P function to connect to other devices by creating a network. This page
by Google might help you to know in detail : Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer

Hope this helps

A2A , thanks

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As  we all know we use wi-fi hotspot for giving a free wi-fi for our friends for some time till file sharing app in Android?
we have the net balance and we acquire the internet ascess at home for our android devices
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via wi-fi adapter(in-built) so now look at this description here basically our hot-spot adapter
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is transmitting the data whereas our wi-fi adapter is recieving the data at a larger speed
when compared to our speed of transfer of data via bluetooth hence the transmision of data
either recieving or sending necessarily must become fast through this method... Hence i
think for this reason the app is designed in such a way that as and when u power on that app
it automatically switches on our hotspot and wifi adapter for a faster tramsmission of
data.... This is jst my assumption i donno about the working mechanism of that app....
If anyone knows the actual working phenomenon they can please comment on my answer...

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