linking the topic you refer to - Beam not working (Android10)
I haven’t enough NFC phones lying around to test it… what device OS has your friend, iOS or Android?
If all the phones are Android and share the same Wifi, the options are
- “Magic Wormhole” clients, there are 1 and 2 on F-Droid
- Warpinator
- Snapdrop (via Firefox as it is broken in webview/bromite until /e/ v1.8 is released)
iOS has Snapdrop too, but I had no luck last I remember with Snapdrop in Firefox to Snapdrop App in iPhone in the same Wifi
Android Beam is neat, using nfc for initiation. It looks like it is on the way out. Nearby Share is bound to Gapps, so by default there is only bluetooth file share available