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Material Files

File Manager Essentials Hai Zhang
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A Material Design file manager built by the Android Open Source Project.

Material Files is the file manager that ships from the AOSP source tree. It is small, ad-free, handles archives and SMB natively, and is maintained by an Android platform engineer.

What it does

  • Browse internal storage, SD cards, OTG and MTP devices
  • Built-in archive support for zip, tar, 7z and rar, plus image and video previews
  • SMB/CIFS network shares and SFTP
  • Root and archive browsing, dual-pane split view, clipboard and batch actions

About Material Files

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

Screenshots

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Appearance

Theme
Follow the system, or pin light or dark.
Accent colour
The whole palette re-derives from one seed, the way Material You does on Android.
Typeface
Figtree — an open-source (SIL OFL 1.1) stand-in for the proprietary Google Sans used across Google's own products.