November 21, 2025November 21, 2025 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

AirDrop on Android? How Did Google Get This Working?

AirDrop now works on Pixel phones!

There’s been a LOT of speculation about how Google managed to get this working, or if Apple will update the iPhone to break this compatibility. Did Google reverse engineer Apple’s popular file sharing protocol? Maybe not!

Let’s talk about what happens when we make Apple play by the rules…

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More info on AirDrop and WiFi: https://www.ditto.com/blog/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-eu-killed-awdl

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