Whenever we wish to copy some stuff from our computer to our Android device or vice versa, we have to connect the Android device with the computer by using a data cable. And has to do it every time when we have something to transfer, which is really bothering.

So you must be wondering that is there any way to transfer files between your Android device and computer without data cable? And the answer is yes, there’s a way. But the condition is that your Android device and computer must be connected to same WiFi network. We’ll be using an app “AirDroid” from Google Play Store.

Steps to use AirDroid to wireless transfer of files between Android and any OS:

First of all, go to the . Open the app and install it on your Android device.

After the complete installation, launch the app. Now, there are two ways to connect your device with computer. First by “Signing up/Registration” and second by “Scanning the QR code”.

Connecting by “Signing up/Registration”:

After launching the AirDroid app on your device, you’ll be asked to “Sign in or register” or to “Skip” the registration. Choose “Sign in or Register”.

You can register via your Google, Facebook or Twitter account. Complete the registration.

Now go to “web.airdroid.com“. You’ll see a window asking to Sign in. Enter your Email and password and click on Sign in. Keep in mind that before you Sign in to “web.airdroid.com”, first Sign in to AirDroid app in your device. Otherwise your device will not connect to your computer. After successful Sign in, your device will connect to your computer.

Connect by “Scanning QR code”:

When you launch the AirDroid app on your device, skip the registration.

You’ll see a camera button at the bottom with text “Scan QR Code”. Click on it.

Now go to “web.airdroid.com”. You’ll see a window with a QR Code on its right side. Scan the code from you device and your device will connect to your computer.

Now after your device is connected, you’ll be directed to a page showing icons like Messages, Music, Files, Call Logs, Camera etc. on left side and other information like memory and free space on right side.

To transfer any file from your computer to your device, click on “File” on the right side of the page. You can either drag & drop the files or folders you want to copy over there as show in the image below. Or you can select the file by clicking on the blue button (see the image below). You can also select the destination folder in your device where you want to transfer your file by clicking on dark black button (see the image below).

There’s another way to transfer files to your device. Open the “Files” folder from the icons and the go to the folder where you want to transfer your file. Click on upload and then either drag & drop or select the files/folders from “Select Files” or “Select Folder” button.

Now to transfer files from your device to computer, it’s about downloading them. Just open “Files”, right click on the file or folder you want to transfer to your computer and click on Download. Instead of right clicking on the file, you can directly click on the download button at the top right of the window. Folders and multiple files will download as a Zip file.

There are a lot other things we can do from “AirDroid” app. We can send and receive SMSs directly from your computer which means we don’t even need to touch our device to reply someone. We can also make phone calls, push URLs and share clipboards to our device. We can take pictures from our device; by clicking on camera icon you’ll able to see the camera screen on your computer. Also, we can locate and lock our Android device and swipe all of the data if it’s lost.

So overall, the “AirDroid” is an amazing app making our life a little easier. The beauty is that it works with any operating system. So you can easily connect to your computer without any software suite. It will also help you in case when Android device is not recognized by Linux. What do you think about this app? Share with us in comments.