FYI material files is maintained, there just hasn’t been a release since may 2022. The last update was June 9 which you can see on the git repo https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles
any app from the ‘Simple’ suite is always worth checking out. (search ‘simple files’ on f-droid). i personally prefer the stock grapheneos one, but use Simple gallery
I use Material Files and is so far the best you can get, as fa I know. Didn’t seen any better Fime manager over the time and some applications just are not regulary updated, bjt still gets updates over the years. Same thing for Material Files.
It’s not open source but it’s quite literally the best Android application I’ve ever seen, by a significant margin. It’s from the good old days where apps were small, very well designed, very polished and did not collect data.
It’s FX, a gem ever more lost to time. The site is a bit old and unmaintained so SSL certificates may give you a bit of trouble, but you can just ignore the warnings, it’s just an info page.
FX, despite not receiving updates for years has so many features of such great quality, I’ve yet to find any alternative with a truly competing interface and feature set.
Been using it for 10 years and it has been the pinnacle of Android.
Edit: I know you’ll be detracted from trying it since it’s not FOSS, but seriously give it a shot.
The Material Files repo shows the last update was three weeks ago, but the latest version on the releases page and f-droid are from 2022. This is confusing…
Pro tip: You can host FTP servers from your phone. You can access that from your computer’s file manager and just drag and drop things on and off of your phone.
Ah, then you’re farther along than I am, but I’m glad I could introduce you to an app with powerful features you can make use of. I hope to take the plunge into the world of self-hosting before too much longer.
Zarchiver has been my mainstay for as long as I have had an android phone. Does everything I need. And I’ve never run into a compression format it can’t open. 7zip, rar, it can even open up apks for whatever reason you would need to grab files from an app. Also multi part archives.
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I use Simple File Manager Pro myself. It’s available on F-Droid. The code is licesned using GPLv3.0.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.filemanager.pro/
FYI material files is maintained, there just hasn’t been a release since may 2022. The last update was June 9 which you can see on the git repo https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles
any app from the ‘Simple’ suite is always worth checking out. (search ‘simple files’ on f-droid). i personally prefer the stock grapheneos one, but use Simple gallery
I use Material Files and is so far the best you can get, as fa I know. Didn’t seen any better Fime manager over the time and some applications just are not regulary updated, bjt still gets updates over the years. Same thing for Material Files.
Mixplorer for sure
It’s not open source but it’s quite literally the best Android application I’ve ever seen, by a significant margin. It’s from the good old days where apps were small, very well designed, very polished and did not collect data.
It’s FX, a gem ever more lost to time. The site is a bit old and unmaintained so SSL certificates may give you a bit of trouble, but you can just ignore the warnings, it’s just an info page.
FX, despite not receiving updates for years has so many features of such great quality, I’ve yet to find any alternative with a truly competing interface and feature set.
Been using it for 10 years and it has been the pinnacle of Android.
Edit: I know you’ll be detracted from trying it since it’s not FOSS, but seriously give it a shot.
Filemanager +
Has everything I need, good UI, good quick access to commonly used folders and SD card, good file manipulation options.
The Material Files repo shows the last update was three weeks ago, but the latest version on the releases page and f-droid are from 2022. This is confusing…
The last commit was three weeks ago. The last release was 2022.
So anything after 2022 you need to build from source to use.
Or download it from Google Play Store?
The Play Store is also using version 1.5.2 released in May 2022
I use Google files with disabled Internet permission.
How do you disable they permission?
You need an operating system like calyxOS or LineageOS or just a firewall that allows blocking internet access of apps
With an app like NetGuard or Rethink: DNS + Firewall. Both apps can be found on F-Droid.
Mixplorer has absolutely never failed me over the past decade or so.
I downloaded MiXplorer today. It’s really great. Thanks for the tip!
Pro tip: You can host FTP servers from your phone. You can access that from your computer’s file manager and just drag and drop things on and off of your phone.
Funny, I never get files from my computer to my phone, its the other way around.
If I want some folders and files to be on both I use Syncthing for that.
To each their own, it’s pretty infrequent that I think about my phone’s file system at all.
Hehe, nice. Luckily I have my own NAS with WebDAV which I use to transfer/access files anywhere. And MiXplorer supports WebDAV, so that’s a win. :)
Edit: This might be an option too to share files with this app.
Ah, then you’re farther along than I am, but I’m glad I could introduce you to an app with powerful features you can make use of. I hope to take the plunge into the world of self-hosting before too much longer.
Ya everytime I reset my phone or get a new one I head to xda to download Mixplorer.
Material files. Seems to do the job for me.
Little File Explorer from F-Droid does for me the job.
Zarchiver has been my mainstay for as long as I have had an android phone. Does everything I need. And I’ve never run into a compression format it can’t open. 7zip, rar, it can even open up apks for whatever reason you would need to grab files from an app. Also multi part archives.
It’s also regularly updated.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.zdevs.zarchiver
I use secure file manager from fdroid.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.explorer
This is my ride or die