The developers have plans for big updates soon, including the ability to transfer files from your phone to PC.Īnd that’s about it. We’re not sure why it couldn’t simply be brought to Pushbullet as a new feature, but we won’t complain - it’s free and it’s awesome. It’s different from Pushbullet’s file transfer feature which can work even if your two devices aren’t on the same network. Files transferred to your phone are easily accessed either within the app or Android’s standard file browser. It works by transferring files over your local WiFi network, so you don’t have to deal with shoddy connection and server speeds. It’s not super exciting or some new concept, but it is simple, and it is fast. Just open the app and pull up on your computer and youre ready to go.
It’s called Portal, and it enables you to transfer files from your computer to your Android phone. We have already unpublished the Portal Android app.The developers behind Pushbullet are gearing up to bring a big update to the push notification app soon, but first they dropped a brand new app on us.
We will be shutting down Portal on Friday, October 8th. Since Chrome and Chromium variants have overwhelming browser dominance, this means Portal will soon no longer work for the vast majority of people. Since Portal worked by accessing a local server running on your phone to do all file transfers locally over WiFi, this means Portal no longer works for anyone using Chrome. Starting with Chrome 94, Chrome no longer allows HTTP requests to local IP addresses. Our philosophy of enabling apps to easily interact with files no longer fits the direction Android has taken. The same was true for playing video files, etc.Īndroid has since moved away from shared storage and all apps will be required to use Scoped Storage in just a couple months. Let’s say you had a game console emulator installed, you could use Portal to drop a bunch of ROMs onto your phone and the emulator was able to find them. This played very nicely with other apps, making interactions possible just like on a regular computer. We chose to have Portal put files into the shared storage on your phone so other apps could have access to the files after they were transferred. We are closing Portal because Google has made changes to both Android and Chrome that prevent Portal from working in the way we built it to work. Important: The Pushbullet app is not affected by this announcement. Unfortunately, over 6 years later, I’m now writing this post because many things have changed and the time has come to close Portal. We built the slickest app we could and have continued to support the app, site and server for over 6 years now. Portal was a passion project that we built to experiment with other ways of moving data between phones and computers.
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