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

1. It has no recently-edited files section. 2. The text editor automatically closes without saving any changes if you switch apps; the currently edited text document doesn't show up in the Recent Apps list, so it actually closes the moment you try to multitask. 3. In the text editor: if you tap the bottom of a long text file, the keyboard obscures the text area instead of auto-scrolling to adjust for visibility of the caret. Everything else is great; it's basically an open-source alt to Fx.

The Material Files app is excellent. It has most of the File Manager features I will ever need and unlike some other FMs can see the media cards in my camera when connected via a USB-C OTG cable. This allows me to use my phone as a backup device while shooting in the field. The one feature that I would like to see added would be multi-select. Maybe a 'select all' feature would be a good stop-gap addition in the nearer term. Great app.

This was close to being a perfect file manager replacement for me. Only the lack of true split screen and changing the view to tiles/thumbnails is the reason I'm not keeping it. The ability to run multiple instances of it kind of works as a split screen, but it's a hassle to create floating windows and adjust them to be side by side each time. Dev, pls let me know if these are future changes for the app.. I'd definitely come back.

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.