{"id":57348,"date":"2026-04-11T14:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/heres-what-googles-namedrop-clone-for-android-will-be-called\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:26:52","slug":"heres-what-googles-namedrop-clone-for-android-will-be-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/heres-what-googles-namedrop-clone-for-android-will-be-called\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what Google&#8217;s Namedrop clone for Android will be called"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>In November, it emerged that Google was working on an Android version of Apple&#8217;s NameDrop feature, which lets you instantly share stuff between iPhones by bringing them close to each other. Then, in early December, a video showed us how it would all work on Android.<\/p>\n<p>Now, new active UI elements have been revealed, and you can see them in the images below which also reveal the name of the feature: Tap to Share. It&#8217;s fairly self-explanatory and probably a lot easier to understand the name than NameDrop (which makes you think of sharing contacts, but it can also be used to share files and that&#8217;s where that name becomes much less useful).<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-row clearfix\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/04\/android-tap-to-share\/popup\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_001.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/04\/android-tap-to-share\/popup\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_002.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google's Tap to Share for Android\" width=\"414\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/26\/04\/android-tap-to-share\/popup\/-x233\/gsmarena_002.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/04\/android-tap-to-share\/popup\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_003.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google's Tap to Share for Android\" width=\"104\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/26\/04\/android-tap-to-share\/popup\/-x233\/gsmarena_003.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><span><strong>Google&#8217;s Tap to Share for Android<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The left image is a brief description of how it works, in the middle you can see the &#8216;glitter&#8217; animation giving the instructions, and on the right is the new contact sharing screen, which has evolved from the initially leaked screen, no doubt due to continued development on Google&#8217;s part.<\/p>\n<p>So, to make Tap to Share work to send contact information, photos, videos, links, locations, &#8220;and more,&#8221; you&#8217;ll need to unlock your phone and have the screens of both it and the phone it&#8217;s being shared to face up and overlap so you can see them both. Then you wait for the &#8216;shine&#8217;. If this doesn&#8217;t work, Google suggests holding the phones back to back. This dance is necessary because the placement of NFC chips on Android phones is not standardized.<\/p>\n<p>It is still unclear when this tap to share functionality will be rolled out. When it comes to this, we believe it may be exclusive to Google&#8217;s Pixels for a certain amount of time before becoming available on more Android devices, as that&#8217;s how Google usually works. Maybe it will come as part of Android 17? only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-tap-to-share-ui-apk-teardown-3656467\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November, it emerged that Google was working on an Android version of Apple&#8217;s NameDrop feature, which lets you instantly share stuff between iPhones by bringing them close to each other. Then, in early December, a video showed us how it would all work on Android. Now, new active UI elements have been revealed, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1601,1670,14085,6012,1526,19747],"class_list":["post-57348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-android","tag-called","tag-clone","tag-googles","tag-heres","tag-namedrop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57350,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57348\/revisions\/57350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}