mixplorer FTW
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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Ohhh this one is good. Thx for the tip
Is there a git repo for the code?
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.
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.
But I’m not sure if its still maintained.
it's still getting commits on Github, just no new releases so far. looks like there's still some work to be done before the next release: https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles/milestone/26
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.
FX file explorer has been my main for years. Local/remote/ssh
Another vote for FX File Manager, best file manager I've ever used on mobile
Mixplorer for sure
Whenever I want /need a new app, I check out this repo with well catergorized FOSS apps: offa / android-foss
It lists several of the already suggested apps
If you want features, check Solid Explorer. Free, but paid upgrade gives you a lot more features.
Material files. Seems to do the job for me.
X-plore. Its the only one that lets you open multiple folders at once like you would on a desktop computer. It also is a built in FTP manager and will even replace your need to have separate cloud apps like Google Drive and Dropbox.
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.
Solid File Explorer, bought it forever ago, and it hasn't let me down yet.
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
Filemanager +
Has everything I need, good UI, good quick access to commonly used folders and SD card, good file manipulation options.
Little File Explorer from F-Droid does for me the job.
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
Material files is good but I am all about Total Commander
I use secure file manager from fdroid.