To send files, photos, music, videos or other from your computer to your Android phone or tablet or, vice versa, to transfer photos and other files from your phone to your PC, there are different ways, more or less comfortable depending on your habits. A standard method is certainly to connect the smartphone to the PC via USB cable, displaying the Android memory as if it were a USB flash drive into which or from which to drag the files.
Wanting to avoid using the inconvenient cable and having a faster transfer of files in wifi, then you can use specific applications to send files between PC and Android, easy to use and free.
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1) Transfer files between PC and Android over Wi-Fi network
The best way to transfer files between PC and Android is to send them over a shared wireless network.
There are many apps that can be used to share files in a home network (if the devices connect to the internet with the same wifi router) and one that is simple to use and very convenient is Portal, which I had already talked about in the guide on how to transfer files from PC to smartphone.
Portal is really immediate in its use, just install the application, open it on your Android phone and then use the button to scan the QR code found on the website of the portal.pushbullet.com/ website.
Once the code has been recognized, simply drag the computer files into the Portal web page and release them to send them to the phone.
In this way you can send all the files you want on Android, without limitations in size and at the speed of the wifi connection, very fast.
Alternatively, you can use what is already the most used application in the world for transferring files between Android and other devices, namely ShareIT, available as an app for iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac.
Speaking of Windows, to connect the phone to the computer it is necessary to install the ShareIT program on a PC.
A QR code appears on the computer program which can be scanned by the app's camera on Android to create the connection and transfer the files.
Although this can be considered an inconvenience, having ShareIT installed on PC and phone has the advantage of being able to make transfers between devices of any file, including applications, photos, videos, music and all the rest.
The app is well structured and allows you to browse the phone files and select even more than one to make a multiple sending.
Another way of transferring files over wifi is to use the Windows file sharing function and use an app like ES File Manager.
In this regard, we have written a guide on how to access shared Windows folders from Android in wifi.
2) File transfer between Android and PC with Bluetooth
If you don't want to use external applications, you can send files between PC and Android using the bluetooth connection, which is not convenient for large transfers, but works well for occasional transfers.
Obviously bluetooth must be active on the PC and in this regard I refer to the specific guide to connect the Android smartphone to the Windows 10 PC via Bluetooth.
In summary, the procedure for sending files via bluetooth from the PC or to the PC from Android is as follows:
On the PC, go to the Bluetooth settings (search for "Bluetooth" for the Start menu).
Select the Android phone from the list of detected devices and associate it by entering the security code that can be read on the smartphone screen.
Use the "Send or receive files via Bluetooth" option to the right of the Bluetooth options on your PC to allow reception of files.
Find the file to send on the phone and use the menu to share it via Bluetooth, selecting the associated PC.
3) Send files via Cloud Drive
Cloud drives still remain simple and convenient alternatives to use for file transfers between devices.
You can then use the cloud drive app on your phone to upload a file and then find it from the PC on the application site or, if the Windows program is installed, directly copied to the destination folder of the cloud.
Among the best "cloud storage" apps on Android to synchronize files from the PC and from the internet there are certainly Google Drive, Onedrive and Dropbox, leaders in the sector.
4) Sending files via SMS or Whatsapp with an Android mobile phone is possible, albeit with various limitations.
More than Whatsapp, it is perhaps much more convenient to use an app like Telegram, create a chat with yourself and connect to Telegram also from the PC to make transfers.
In another article we therefore saw how to transfer files using the cloud space of Telegram and Whatsapp.
5) The Pushbullet app is also quite convenient for transferring files.
If you already use Pushbullet to receive phone notifications on your computer, then it will also be easy to send files and photos between PC and Android.
You can then install Pushbullet on your phone and then as a Chrome extension, connect to the same account and then use the send file function to make transfers.
6) The AirDroid app , the best way to manage your Android phone from your PC, allows you to transfer files easily between your PC and phone.
Airdroid has the advantage of not requiring the installation of a program on a PC, but of relying on a web interface to be opened on the browser (Chrome or Firefox).
The transfer function is therefore found on the app and on the PC, to send files between the various devices.
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