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Best file menager on android?
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I've been using solid explorer for years now
Another vote for Solid Explorer. Two panes side by side and can connect to a lot of remotes, even Samba so you can use Windows shared folders.
Moved to Solid Explorer after ES got enshittified. No complaints here but will move to something FOSS when it gets 90% as good.
same, I just checked, I bought the full version in 2016 (for like a dollar ?) and been using it since.
Same, the ability to access Google drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox files alongside your local files is awesome.
As well as Nextcloud! It's my pick as well.
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Mixplorer has absolutely never failed me over the past decade or so.
Ya everytime I reset my phone or get a new one I head to xda to download Mixplorer.
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.
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.
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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.
Mixplorer for sure
Mixplorer is the only answer
Filemanager +
Has everything I need, good UI, good quick access to commonly used folders and SD card, good file manipulation options.
I've been using Amaze, it's nice, although I use it sparingly.
https://github.com/TeamAmaze/AmazeFileManager
I'm always surprised at how few people seem to be aware of Amaze.
Would you say it amazes you?
Shut up and take my upvote.
Material files. Seems to do the job for me.
Total Commander. For FOSS, Ghost Commander, similar but not exactly on par yet, at least in UX.
I also use Total Commander, latest versions also include WiFi Web download for easy transfer for other devices. Ghost Commander also seems nice, going to use it for a bit.
The WiFi plugin was perfect to transfer game ROMs and other stuff to/from an older Android TV that didn't support much of anything else.
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Little File Explorer from F-Droid does for me the job.
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.
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I use material files too cause its been suggested a lot in r/degoogle in reddit. But I'm not sure if its still maintained. Anyone has a better app which is also FOSS?
It's maintained, zanghai updates dependencies every week: https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles/commits/master
Just no new releases. I haven't found any bugs and it has all the features I need, so I don't miss anything. When an app is finished, you don't need new releases every week.
Solid File Explorer, bought it forever ago, and it hasn't let me down yet.
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
I use secure file manager from fdroid.
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
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
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