Material Files

Hai Zhang

About this app

An open source Material Design file manager.

Features:
- Open source: Lightweight, clean and secure.
- Material Design: Follows Material Design guidelines, with attention into details.
- Breadcrumbs: Navigate in the filesystem with ease.
- Root support: View and manage files with root access.
- Archive support: View, extract and create common compressed files.
- NAS support: View and manage files on FTP, SFTP, SMB and WebDAV servers.
- Themes: Customizable UI colors, plus night mode with optional true black.
- Linux-aware: Knows symbolic links, file permissions and SELinux context.
- Robust: Uses Linux system calls under the hood, not yet another ls parser.
- Well-implemented: Built upon the right things, including Java NIO2 File API and LiveData.

https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles

Ratings and reviews

It's a file utility that does everything I want a file utility to do. It presents a file tree starting at the root of a drive. There are no screens of classes of data to skip. The graphics are minimalist. It performs operations like copy, move, delete efficiently. It handles local networks just fine. I don't want a file utility to be my buddy. I just want one that works.

This is a refreshingly competent file browser that's easy to use. Setting up my external drives, FTP and LAN all went without a hitch. I especially like the double-paned windows that make file browsing so easy. Having said all that, the app displays in the app drawer as "Files" which is the same name and similar logo to the natively installed file browser on Moto phones. At least the app drawer name should be renamed to "Material Files."

I lost my poem because I exited the app through the central button of my phone (the one that directs you to home). It's a BASIC function of every mediocre program to ask if you want to save something if you are leaving and potentially losing data that was stored only on RAM and not on SDD/HDD. Besides that, I miss the possibility of renaming a file if you are reading it (you are obligated to get out of the file and rename it through the '...' button). Beautiful UI, but fails to be complete

What’s new

- Fixed crash when opening archive files directly.
- Fixed FTP server Quick Settings tile crash on Android 14.
- Material Design 2 theme may be removed in the upcoming version 1.8.0.
- Other bug fixes and improvements.