Open Explorer Beta

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About this app

Open Explorer - an open source file manager for all Android devices! (Tablets, Large Phones, Small Phones, Google TV)
- Complete file system management
- USB, SD and other external media
- Auto-detect & install BusyBox
- Network Connectable (FTP, SFTP, SMB/Samba/Windows/Lan/WIFI)
- Cloud connected (multiple accounts)! (Box, Dropbox, Drive)
- Text Editor (Tabbed, Multiple Document Interface)
- Smart Folders that scan for different types of media (Videos, Photos, Music, Downloads)
- View Pager directory navigation (swipe right to go up a directory)
- Superuser/Root ability to read/write system folders (and JB 4.2 user folders)
- Disk space heat map shows where your biggest files are
- Browse or extract from most common archives - Zip, Tar, TGZip, BZip2, 7zip, RAR

Features to come:
- Offline file structure cache, will remember which files you have in different places without needing to connect

*PLEASE NOTE: OpenExplorer is in Beta. There are still several bugs. If you do not wish to experience these bugs, please do not download this app. If you would like to help me find these bugs, please email me or cooperate with me on GitHub (https://github.com/BrandroidTools/OpenExplorer/). Please remember bad ratings help nobody.

Past Changes:
v229
Fixed root/system operations
v228
Updated Portuguese, French & Russian
Allow custom OAuth settings
v226
Fixed Root crashes
Removed Google Analytics
v225
Bugfixes with sorting, refreshing, heatmap, external SD
v222
Google Drive support! (new permissions required)
v220
Box & Dropbox integration (with multiple account authentication!)
v217
7zip & RAR extraction support
v216
BZip2 support
v214
Tar/GZip support
v212
Mostly bugfixes
Prompt before copy overwrite
v210
NFC - Beam your clipboard
Passive root operations
v209
Clipboard improvements
Many concurrency improvements
File operations serialized
Large heap requested
v208
Reverted Action Bar menu icon on older devices
Updated German, Spanish, Russian & Dutch translations
Downloads scanner improved
v205:
Fixed Clipboard crash
Other updates
v204:
Fix "Add new Server" crash
Other bug fixes
v202:
Fixed server settings deletion bug
Scaled other icons
v201
Light&Dark Theme Tweaks
Added scaled version of some icons
Changed Zip Icon
Fix thumb scaling
Add Ukrainian & Chinese to Language preference
Server settings moved to persistent storage so they don't get deleted if you uninstall
Other bugfixes
v200 - 12/21/12:
Chinese Translation
Bookmark View UI Updates
JB 4.2 USB Updates
Privacy Policy
v199
SearchView update to all devices
Fixed "Select All" crash
/system remounter for rooted users
v198
JB 4.2 (rooted) updates
v197
Themes reworked! There are now 4 themes to choose from: dark, light, mix, and pinstripe
Jellybean expanded notifications for operations
Donate added to menu
Updated ActionBarSherlock
v194
Improved device scanner - USB OTG
Updated Japanese
v191
Bugfix for when your last viewed path was a network path
v190
Updated Russian, Japanese & Turkish translations
Fixed settings restart bug
v189
Added Text Wrapping
Switched to stericson's RootTools for root thread management - root should work better
Send/Share + Rename fixed
Notification Tweaks & Fixes
Preference Layout Improvements
v185
Settings reorganized and updated to be more standard
Zip files are navigatable
System activities now appear in action bar for zip & text files
v182
Added "heatmap" operation for determining relative folder sibling size
v179
Fixed Search
v178
Fixed Networked folder selection bug
Show multi-select checkmarks by default
v176
7" Tablet (aka Nexus 7!) tweaks
New List/Grid item border/background
Jellybean-style default app selector
Added search back in as menu option
v173
Fixed file operation notification crash (due to theming)
v172
Re-enable Google TV (do not update if you are on Google TV)
v171
*MAJOR UPDATE* - first official build of new Brandroid Tools team!
Switch to ActionBarSherlock
Dark/Light Theming Support!

Ratings and reviews

Wanted to disable permission to access "contacts" as listed in "read more" but it was not enabled and neither was "storage" which, apparently, caused it to hang on first launch. I haven't used it yet but I expect it to be better than first impression.

Works great for my Acer Liquid Jade s56, Android 4.4.4 Maybe a bit slow loading when opening the app; this may have multiple reasons, I guess. 💙

It works really well! My only suggestion is to make the ui a little better and clearer. 5/5

What's new

v255 - 9/19/18
WOW. 3 and a half years since my last release. Had to update Target Android version or Open Explorer would get kicked off. Honestly, Android Apps have changed so much since building Open Explorer, I thought I wasn't able to update with the older methods. But I am, so maybe more will be coming!

v254 - 3/09/15
Fix Settings crash