{"id":311953,"date":"2019-07-01T07:54:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T05:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=311953"},"modified":"2019-07-01T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T05:55:10","slug":"google-to-launch-fast-share-for-android-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/311953-google-to-launch-fast-share-for-android-smartphones.html","title":{"rendered":"Google to launch Fast Share for Android smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is developing a replacement for its Android Beam sharing functionality named Fast Share, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2019\/06\/29\/google-android-fast-share\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>9to5Google<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Android Beam is an NFC-based sharing technology which was first introduced in Android 4.0.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Google confirmed it would be deprecating this older sharing method in favour of newer technology for Android 10.<\/p>\n<p>Fast Share will reportedly be rolled out with Android 10 and would function similarly to Apple&#8217;s AirDrop solution.<\/p>\n<p>The system reportedly allows users to share files with other Android devices without an Internet connection, requiring Bluetooth and location to be enabled.<\/p>\n<p>There is no confirmed launch date for Fast Share, but it is currently available in the Android Q Beta for certain devices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/311113-microsoft-working-on-foldable-surface-running-android-apps-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft working on foldable Surface running Android apps \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is developing a replacement for its Android Beam sharing functionality named Fast Share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":268787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[56742,59767,167],"class_list":["post-311953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android-q","tag-fast-share","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}