Warpinator, to make it official support on smartphones by Mint team

[ghost]

Currently there is a Warpinator for android, but its unofficial and full of bugs, connection issues and such, it's technically unusable.

It would be good, if you Mint team could port your official Warpinator for smartphones, for better compatibility.

[fosslover306]

The version on Fdroid works fine, honestly getting a opensource app from the google play store is a huge mistake in it's self because it is probably a malicious version, or is screwed up somehow.

That being said Localsend is easier to use, has a better interface, and also has a version on Fdroid and Linux via Flatpak. Warpinator while it used to work pretty well the last time I used it 9 months ago It had huge ongoing reliability and connectivity problems, combined with the worse interface and other bugs, so maybe the Playstore version is fine by the standards of Warpinator last time I used it.

[fosslover306]

@vajdao For the record I assume Warpinator has improved since then I just don't see a need to go back.

[ghost]

@fosslover306 ! No, warpinator for android haven't improved since then, because I'm struggling with the phone-pc connection for months to this day! F-droid variant also is at the same version as googleplay and the person who maintains that app pushes both to google play and f-droid at the same time so those are in sync, but also with the same bugs (randomly disconnects, or it can't see my pc, or my pc cant see my phone till i delete cache and restart the app on my phone, its a known bug you can check it at its github)

honestly getting a opensource app from the google play store is a huge mistake in it's self because it is probably a malicious version, or is screwed up somehow.

Thats an interesting statement, since Play Store is monitored and guarded with Play Protect, F-droid is the one which is unmonitored, and also the phone's security needs to be turned off to install f-droid itself and all the apps within from unknown sources, which is a potential risk, and not google play...

Localsend is not an option, it is flatpak on the PC end, which I avoid like fire.

Also, don't hijack my topic, thank you.

[ghost]

@fosslover306 yes this is why I opened MY idea on warpinator, thanks for your input.

[fosslover306]

@vajdao If I remember correctly the most reliable method to make Warinator work is both devices must be on the same network, the fewer devices on the network the better, both clients need to have the same group code, be started and running within 30 seconds of each other so they hopefully will find each other before they stop scanning, and It seems that the compression option needs to be set to off or on for both devices, ideally it should be set to off which increases network traffic but greatly improves reliability, and make sure you pressed the "apply network changes" button or turn your computers firewall off entirely, and If it can find the other client automatically don't allow either machine to disconnect from the network or it also causes problems.

If they don't find each other within the 30-90 second window you can wait a few minutes to see if it starts working, but if I doesn't then you will likely need to restart both of them, and If your router has client isolation enabled good luck. Honestly if Warpinator just had a rescan button it would solve a lot of it's problems.

These were the tricks I was forced to use to get the native package of Warpinator working properly (IE connected and actually able to transfer files).

[ghost]

@fosslover306 I know how to use warpinator thank you... and technically you repeated me at the restart part. So I suggest to let's end this meaningless discussion before I lose my patience, and let's just wait for new Mint team's input.