File Widget - home screen file

Gary Mac

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About this app

File Widget lets you browse and view your files directly on your home screen.

It can display images and plain text files, such as your favourite photos or a to-do list, right alongside your app icons.

It's also a complete file manager allowing you to create, move, copy, rename and delete files and folders without the need for another app (upgrade required).

Once installed it can be found in the widget drawer of your app launcher. To use it, long press on an empty area of your home screen and choose Widgets. Tap and hold on File Widget and drag it into place.

With this version you can:

- Browse your files in list or gallery view
- Display images, plain text files and PDFs
- Open and share files
- Choose between five different themes
- Use one widget at a time

After upgrading you can also:

- Use multiple widgets at once
- Create new folders and text files
- Move, copy, rename and delete files and folders

Please note:

- Only the following file types can be displayed: JPG, PNG, GIF, TXT and PDF. Animated GIFs will not animate.
- If you are running Android 4.4 (KitKat) the file management features will not work with files stored on a removable SD card. This is a KitKat limitation.

Ratings and reviews

I don't know if i'm missing something....? 🤔 (I am still having a lot of problems with my new tablet setup.) I need an app like this one but i need to access folders on my SD card not the internal storage. I can't seem to be able to do it. It would be the perfect app if i could reach my folders from desktop. I'll mess with it some more but if there's no SD card access i can't use it 😕

Application is good. *But, videos, songs etc. can't play from the widget, it is crashing always. **Photos are not showing in the album. When tap on any image from the widget, showing only a Black square in the album. ***PDF and other texts are not able to read as it's fonts are showing very small. Please provide a zoom option for better reading. Please update. Thanks. Android 11

I love everything. But I NEED the option for a monospace font. I don't know how to set it, or if there is a way. Another nice thing to have would be the ability to view markdown (Basic stuff like italics and bolding, maybe headers?). But if I could get monospacing, it would really elevate the experience for me. Thanks.

What's new

- New Recent tab showing files and folders previously displayed in a widget
- New single page PDF view
- Added thumbnails for PDF files
- Added option to change the size of items in gallery view
- Use compact list items setting is now per widget instead of global to all widgets
- PDFs are now viewable on Android 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4
- Various bug fixes and improvements