File Transfrer

(Name in progress)

This is a simple file transfering application for transfering files between Desktop and Mobile Devices

Desktop

The desktop app makes use of an Electron application running a Mocca MQTT Broker and is subscribed to a file-transfer channel, to which connected devices can send content (so far it just logs out the content)

Mobile

This is an Ionic app making use of a Browserified version of the MQTT.js library that connects to the Broker hosted on the desktop application

Running Dev

0. Clone the repo
1. Install dependencies *Node.js must be installed

cd desktop
npm i

cd ../mobile
npm i

2. Run the applications either with

cd desktop
npm start

cd ../mobile
npm start

Or using the Visual Studio Debug configurations:

• Debug Desktop
• Debug Mobile

To Do

A lot still needs to be done before the application is actually functional

A broad roadmap for the activities still needed is:

0. Document code (this probably won't be 0. but it's a nice thought)
1. IP address on Mobile should not be hardcoded Use network interfaces as in the case of the desktop application
2. Mobile client to select and send file/s
3. Desktop client to save file (even to just a default directory for now)
4. Devices to 'discover' each other across a network
5. Devices to use specific channels for their communication
6. Desktop client to send file/s to mobile client
7. Work on Mobile UI
8. Work on Desktop UI

References

• Mosca
• Setting up Private MQTT Broker with Node.js
• Reading Files