Here’s what Google’s NameDrop clone for Android will be called

Back in November, it emerged that Google was working on an Android version of Apple’s NameDrop feature, which lets you quickly share stuff between iPhones by just getting them close together. Then, in early December, a video showed us how it will all work on Android.

Now, newly activated UI elements have surfaced, and you can see them in the images below which also reveal this feature’s name: tap to share. That’s pretty self-explanatory and probably a much easier to understand name than NameDrop (which is fine to get you to think about contact sharing, but it can also be used to share files and that’s where that name becomes much less helpful).

Google’s Tap to Share for Android

In the left image is a brief description of how it works, in the middle you can see the ‘glow’ animation that the instructions are referring to, and on the right is the new contact sharing screen, which has evolved from the initially leaked one, undoubtedly due to continuous development on…