Download Discontinued Android File Transfer.app by Google

Another day, another product discontinued by Google ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Android File Transfer is no more. It has ceased to be. It expired and has gone to meet it's maker.

As it turns out, this one is actually quite useful. Not perfect, but useful. It allows you to transfer files between an Android device and a Macintosh computer.

Now, there are other apps that achieve the same thing and much more, but they all seem quite bloated compared to the relativelly lightweight 3.5MB app by Google.

Luckilly, Google hasn't taken down the download link:
https://dl.google.com/dl/androidjumper/mtp/current/AndroidFileTransfer.dmg so, download it while you can ツ.

λ sha256sum ~/Downloads/AndroidFileTransfer.dmg
b9249399a351e8146358ff1ddb546c68a63134b780be795ae64e0a4c2258bc61

As an alternative, you can also use adb in the terminal: https://developer.android.com/tools/adb

# install
brew install android-platform-tools

# Ensure USB Debugging is Enabled, then run:
adb devices # to lists devices, connect & authorize

# `sdcard` is a symlink to the primary shared storage location
adb pull /sdcard/Download/file.pdf /path/to/local/destination/
adb push /path/to/local/file.pdf /sdcard/Download/ 

# folders can be pulled/pushed too
adb pull /sdcard/DCIM ~/Pictures/

2025-05-07
by Zed Kaido