Material Files.
I haven’t dug into them deeper but Fossify have what seems to be decent basic options for all of the base Android apps: Phone, SMS, keyboard, camera, etc.
Just replacing all the stock apps with the Fossify suite looks like it could be an easy privacy win for someone stuck on a device with locked bootloader and dodgy stock apps from vendor or Google.
Material Files for me. It feels like KDE’s Dolphin if it had an android port.
Wait. Nobody mentioned the extraordinary MiXplorer ?!?!
I don’t know why it is not more popular, it just does EVERYTHING.
Don’t forget to donate to the dev if you use and like it :)
Thanks for sharing, but I imagine it doesn’t get mentioned as much here because from a privacy perspective, that app seems kinds shady.
No source code available as far as I can tell, no builds available from a reputable source like F-Droid (just unvetted APK downloads from someone’s Google Drive), no apparent issue tracker beyond a confusing and seemingly outdated network of thread links from 2016 on a forum.
That’s fair, you’re absolutely right. I probably like it enough that I never had the courage to go through all 2,453 pages of the XDA thread :) Running it through Exodus showed a clean result, so I likely trusted it a bit too quickly. It still feels miles better to me than most proprietary apps on the Play Store, but clearly less easy to trust than the open source apps mentioned above.
Material Files because of its general design and the quick access to bookmarks and other things in its sidebar accessible through a simple swipe.
It also works with rooted devices to access root files, if that’s something you care about.
Plus one for this. It also works with things like ftp sftp WebDAV smb etc.
Vivaldi, with which you can sync with it’s desktop version. Inbuild ad/trackerblocker (editable) in both.
