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

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 is the best file manager available for Android. It looks great, is easy to use and does exactly what it's intended for. My one problem with the app is the built in image viewer. Whenever you pinch and zoom/move around an enlarged image the app more than 50-60% of the time interprets those actions as if you wanted to swipe to the next/previous image. It's not a deal breaker for me though and it's also probably a really easy fix if I had to guess so maybe it'll be resolved eventually.

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

- Added "Save as" functionality.
- Added "Checksum" properties tab.
- Improved UI to allow easier shortcut into Android/data subfolders.
- Marked user-installed certificates in system credential storage as trusted for WebDAV with self signed certificate.
- Fixed SMB issue with guest and anonymous authentication.
- Material Design 2 theme may be removed in the upcoming version 1.8.0.
- Other bug fixes and improvements.