Peer to Peer (P2P) data transfer within LAN. Under heavy development 🚧.

Photon is a cross-platform file-transfer application built using flutter. It uses http to transfer files between devices.You can transfer files between devices that run Photon.(No wifi router is required ,you can use hotspot)

• Cross-platform support
  For instance you can transfer files between Android and Windows

• Transfer multiple files
  You can pick any number of files.

• Pick files faster
  Most of the apps use file_picker for picking the files. But for android it caches files before retrieving the paths. If the file size is large it will result in considerable amount of delay. So I have tweaked file_picker to avoid caching(android) unless it is required (some files need to be cached). No matter how many files are selected ,paths will be retrieved within no time. (Note:Caching issue is android specific)

• Smooth UI
  Material You design.

• Works between the devices connected via mobile-hotspot / between the devices connected to same router (same local area network)

• Uses cryptographically secure secret code generation for authentication (internally).
  Even though the files are streamed at local area network,files cannot be downloaded/received without using Photon. No external client like browser can get the files using url,as secret code is associated with url. It will be regenerated for every session.

• Supports high-speed data transfer
  Photon is capable of transferring files at a very high rate but it depends upon the wifi bandwidth. (No internet connection required)

• Android
• Windows
• Linux
• macOS
• iOS
  • Coming soon

• Android

• Windows

flutter pub get packages
flutter run

• The LICENSE has been updated to GPL3 from MIT
• File transfer location: Currently the app doesn't allow users to set a file-location. But before the sharing process starts, it will show the file-storing location (see image below). I have set downloads folder as file-storing location.
• If you run the program with flutter run and if you see a blank application window instead of the UI, try running flutter run --enable-software-rendering instead.

👤 Abhilash Hegde

• Twitter: @AbhilashHegde9

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Apple Icon - Apple Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Linux Icon - https://github.com/icons8/flat-color-icons/graphs/contributors, MIT , via Wikimedia Commons