Support for Android and iOS

[dnet890]

Hi
I love this app for transfer between Steam Deck and my laptop. But, it will be great to support phone as well. Is it possible to support Android & iOS?

[sireliah]

Hi and thanks for your kind words.

I know very little about Android/iOS development, but in the past I've done some experiments running Dragit in a browser using WebAssembly and WebRTC. Since browsers supporting these technologies run in all platforms, so maybe this could be a decent replacement idea?

However I don't invest much time into development of new features in Dragit recently and I can't estimate when this would be done.

[dnet890]

I see. is it like PWA on browser?

[sireliah]

Yeah, PWA could work for sure. When I tested the solution, I was using only the browser and successfully managed to run Dragit discovery in Firefox. It was a while ago, but I have a repo: https://github.com/sireliah/wasm-p2p-experiment

I got stuck on the part of the Javascript -> WASM integration where there is a need to load file (in the form of an ArrayBuffer) to Rust/WASM &[u8] array. I'd need to read a bit more on this, but the issue doesn't seem to be a blocker.

Another issue I faced was the need for two servers to make the browser solution usable:

• rendezvous server for host discovery in local network
• signaling server for initiation of the inter-peer connections

Dragit works without external servers, so the browser solution would require someone to host a server. That's a privacy compromise, but on the other hand very tempting solution, considering that browsers run on all architectures and types of devices.