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[Android Apps and Games] Gingernut78:
Loving the app, spent some of my hard earned Google Rewards credit on the full version to support ;)

Wishlist:

Adaptive icon

Transfer speed status on FTP/Samba transfers

Edit: Sorry, didn't notice that transfer speed is actually on the notification pull down and not on the round status circle pop-up.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I did a write-up for novice users on how SD card corruption occurs and how to avoid it....too many reviews about broken SD cards in the Play Store....

https://plus.google.com/+TodLiebeck/posts/HpyuppLebUc
[Android Apps and Games] xdarthanonx:
Never had corruption issues with Gingerbread or Jelly Bean, but with Lollipop USB mass storage typically borks the SD card. Now I mainly just adb push/pull stuff. When I do need to fix things, I do it from recovery:

umount -a -t vfat
fsck.fat -aV /dev/block/mmcblk1p1
[Android Apps and Games] HippoMan:
Setting default 3rd-party text editor?

Forgive me if this has already been answered here and I overlooked it.

I'm running the latest FX File Explorer under Oreo. Is there any way to set the default text editor to be a 3rd-party app? If I disable the internal FX text editor and select Open As, I always get prompted to choose the text editor, and I have to do this each time I want to edit a file.

I'd like to somehow be able to select an alternative text editor that is always used to open text files, so I don't have to go through this Open As sequence each and every time I want to edit a text file.

Thank you for any suggestions.

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[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
And of course as soon as you do Google decides to shut down Google+ ...

A security flaw exposing data of half a million users, ongoing for 3 years, wow. And not disclosed at all, to boot. The usual takeaways :

1 ) Can't really trust Google with data security. Just like any other company honestly. Hello F-crapbook. Don't want data misused / exposed / stolen ? Don't give it to them.

2 ) Can't trust Google with keeping a service / product open or maintaining it. Hello, Google Reader... You lost me as a user forever the day you took over the RSS landscape and then said F-you to all your users leaving them with no alternative. Not that that is the case here, since G+ was dying anyway...

If you go to Settings > Opening Files and uncheck 'Text Files', the next time you open a text file Android should offer you the list of applications available to open it, and a choice between using said application once or always, choosing 'always' will set it as default.

Is it not working this way for you ?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to kill the entire platform.

I may need to move writeups like this to a new platform now... does that have to be Facebook? Not a fan of Facebook. Not even sure what's out there anymore , everything is bought by the big fish and discontinued. My reason for using G+ was that it wasn't Facebook and I figured THIS EXACT THING would not happen to it.
[Android Apps and Games] sherpa25:
Thanks for the tips. But aside from those ways mentioned to avoid corruption (ie. swapping bet. devices, shutting down first, etc), should the SD be formatted to another format, or still FAT? Also, in case a hard shutdown occurs, what should be done to verify the card's integrity, just windows chkdsk?

Re FX, is there a way to run ADB scripts (ex. to grant WRITE permissions for certain apps), or should this ADB commands be run always from a PC? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I don't know of a good alternative myself. If it was me I'd keep it in my own site under control and for social or media exposure would link to it in relevant posts at Hacker News, Reddit, ( Twitter if one must... ), which would also provide a decent ratio of good quality feedback.

Some businesses do this with good results. Fastmail's head honcho usually gives a heads up on issues this way. Like with the last ( and very unusual ) outage they had, where he posted real time over at HN, and then later pointed to the company's blog after the fact for longer and more technical explanations. ( They do have a service status monitor page, but nothing beats engaging personally with the users. )

Edit : I realize this way of doing things is not equivalent to the massive publishing platform that crapbook provides, and is more of a targeted approach, but we're already moving in a niche space anyway, smartphone users interested and engaged in installing and using a third-party file manager... ?

Edit 2 : More and more people ( not just developers ) are using GitHub for publishing software annotated lists / articles / tutorials as well.
[Android Apps and Games] sherpa25:
I second that! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Crescendo Xenomorph:
[MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION] bro, anything you can do with those theme problem on every startup of the app?

It's displaying a popup telling about theme cache and so on everytime I open the app...

Observable with Mi 5S Plus (MIUI 9.6 - N 7.0), Mi Pad 4 (MIUI 9.6 - O 8.1), Samsung Tab S 8.4 LTE (LoS 14.1 - N 7.1.2), Mi Box (AndroidTV stock 8.0).

Also will you update the Faenza theme? It missed FX Connect and other icons... Love that theme....

Thanks a lot...

---------- Post added at 09:09 ---------- Previous post was at 09:06 ----------

I think MEGA is closed source, no open usable API for 3rd party to log into...
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Is batch renaming a feature still being considered ?

I am aware of only three applications with UI that do it in Android at present, one is adware ( = spyware, etc. ) and hasn't been updated anyway in years, probably abandonware as well. A second one does not work past Android N.

That leaves one other file manager and terminal utilities.

With more and more people using Android as their main computing device one would think features like this would be on the rise instead of disappearing...
[Android Apps and Games] deechte:
Hi [MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION]. Are these improvements on your roadmap in the foreseeable future?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] gazzacbr:
Sorry but for me batch renaming would be a minefield.

With so many international languages to cover the potential for disaster would be great, even worse as so many people root their phones now.

my 2c only
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I can't really understand that logic.

Don't use it if it's implemented; 'problem' solved. If your smartphone is only used as a phone, great. Mine are usually a convenient laptop replacement for work.

I use five languages in all my devices, including two Asian ones. No issues with batch renaming in Linux, Android ( where it'd be nice to have the option also in FX, in addition to terminal and other file managers ) or macOS. Can't see where the problem with languages is either.

I couldn't even work without batch renaming hundreds of files every single day, whether it's working on code files, classifying images, or any other kind of repetitive daily task. I just batch renamed and tagged 220 photos to send to our server from the smartphone. The editor working on them would freak out ( and kill me ) if he received 220 files without proper filenames.
[Android Apps and Games] GeTex:
I don't wanna be that one but uhh [MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION] I have Win 2K servers and using SMB v1 in FX fails, but SMB v1 in AndSMB Works so curious if you can fix that?
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
you can probably fix it yourself.

in the settings for your SMB connection there should be an option for v1 already.
[Android Apps and Games] GeTex:
Please actually read my post ;_;
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
I did read it, but misunderstood.
[Android Apps and Games] GeTex:
RIP
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Would love to do this, do see the reason, do see the utility. Don't have the time at present to get after it soon unfortunately (see next post). Don't think this will be trivial to do (UI wise, at least).
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Just a quick status update....

Right now I'm working heavily on the inner mechanics of FX, it's just undergone its most significant internal refactor ever. I'm referring to the internals here, a normal user wouldn't notice this change, but from the developer perspective, it's a major deal. As a for-instance, all of the Plus functionality is now built AFTER the core (free) functionality of FX. And it's not some BS where the core has a ton of hooks for things Plus can do, but rather there are generic APIs that Plus extends....you wouldn't see somehting's "missing" looking at the core, it just looks very extensible. Many components that used to be built monolithically (home, settings, help...) now have registries that modules can attach to.

I can now comment out three lines of build.gradle and generate a half-sized APK with no Plus or media playback functionality...not sure if people will care much about this beyond XDA users, but will probably make such a version available here with an alternative package name after the next release gets finished. It won't even have the internet permission.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
A potential item for next version, appreciate any thoughts. Folders are not colored yet (as they are with the 7.2 default theme).
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Always great to have options, particularly fond of the square ones. ( Hate with a passion how the adaptive icon system is messing up icons since Oreo was released and have started to avoid anything round myself... )
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Well they did COMPLETELY DESTROY most of their own icons, especially the "Play" ones. :D
[Android Apps and Games] m0d:
Is it possible to have icons without background grey colour?

I.E.

current icons
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Would be packaging current theme up as a separate download add-on, but new theme has everything filling all available space.
[Android Apps and Games] techguyone:
One of the things I liked about android was its various shaped icons, why anyone would want to go round, square, sqauriel or anything else is beyond me, please keep some kind of thing where things like media card, folders, etc have some kind of shape to them.
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
Since you're fiddling with the icons, any chance of adding adaptive icons for FX and FX Text Edit?
[Android Apps and Games] osm0sis:
While batch operations would be swell, I'm still hoping for just basic context changing. :fingers-crossed:

It's the biggest thing I can see that's missing considering Android is very much reliant on SELinux now; context can mean the difference between needing a root prompt to run a binary in the $PATH or being able to run it at a user prompt. :eek::)
[Android Apps and Games] HippoMan:
I'm sorry for the late reply.

Thank you very much for your suggestion. But unfortunately, this does not work that way for me. I did this ...

I went to Settings->Open Files and unchecked Text Files.

I tried to open a file. I was indeed offered a list of applications available to open it.

HOWEVER ... when I selected the application, I was NOT offered a choice between using the application once or always. All that happened was that the file was immediately opened in the chosen application. The next time I selected the file, the same thing occurred. I am never offered a choice about using the application once or always.

By the way, there are other file explorers that do offer a choice about opening a file once or always, so I don't think this is an issue with my device or my OS. This behavior seems to be associated with FX File Explorer itself.

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[Android Apps and Games] Crescendo Xenomorph:
how about an update to Faenza theme?

that theme is the best, hands down...
[Android Apps and Games] deechte:
I'd like this as well and have suggested it. In my case it's for a different file type. I'd like more customizable Open With.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
the app selection screen you're presented with for text files comes from the OS.

if you're not offered the "only once" option it means the manufacturer of your device disabled it.

I've included a screenshot of the dialog as it appears on my phone.

I don't know if you can see it, but the filename should say "Screenshot_20181103-134841_Android System.jpg"

my phone happens to include the name of the foreground app when taking a screenshot, and in this case it clearly identifies the dialog as being a part of android.

tliebeck can't change that dialog because it's not part of FX, so you're knocking on the wrong door here.

I suggest you contact the manufacturer of your phone(or developer of your rom if you use a custom rom)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Yes, going in (well, in local code already). Also for shortcuts.
[Android Apps and Games] The_Nothingman:
Question is it possible to trigger Web Access in FX using Tasker? And if not would it possible to put in a feature request for Tasker support, it's the one thing I find missing from the app.
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
I don't know if reporting issues with FX Web Access are still worth since the feature seems abandoned, but here is another issue: it can't handle accentuated latin characters correctly. Take a look at the provided screenshot, it's a ZIP file made in FX Web Access by selecting multiple files and choosing to download; on my phone, on FX itself and in the Web Interface on the browser, they correctly show as Gravação de Áudio 2018-11-10 1x-xx-xx, but on the downloaded file it have weird (HTML escaped?) characters...
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, this is fixed for next release. Web Access is still supported, do want to give it a UI update.

I'm probably going to remove Flash-based music/video/file upload features, all of which were not used by default and are supplanted by HTML5.
[Android Apps and Games] Karnage2015:
I'm getting an Error: "The catalog "some zip file" is read-only when I try to edit a zip file (whether pasting something inside it or deleting something inside it). I'm using the latest FX File Explorer, any way to fix this?
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
make a new zip file, FX can't edit existing ones.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I'm removing swipe-to-select for next release...there are presently three ways to select items (swiping, pressing [+] button, long pressing). Initiating selection mode by swiping is pretty vestigial at this point, and I don't like the way it works modernly. Also, no other apps have this behavior.

I'd like to free up this gesture for later use (not in next version), e.g., possibly swiping between open windows.
[Android Apps and Games] RudeboyXL:
Good idea :good:

despite there being 3 ways to select files, I always used swipe because it was always there, but since a few updates ago, the swipe gesture had become temperamental where it would half swipe then not complete often leading to swiping a file several times before it would be selected. Now swipe to select just frustrates me and like you mention, its not a technique any other app uses and I don't think it's in material design guidelines.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Maybe consider an option to select tapping on icon, as in other file managers ? ( And so tap on filename to open, if icon is selection. )
[Android Apps and Games] -moos-:
[MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION] is there an alternative payment option to the Play Store for us without the Google's bloat?
[Android Apps and Games] gazzacbr:
+1 easy to remember and similar to others so transition to fx will be easier
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
+1 Yes!
[Android Apps and Games] gazzacbr:
Hi, some clues please :confused:

I connect to my windows laptop on the wifi using smb host, but how do I connect to it when it's running linux mint?

EDIT: nvm, added samba and smb shares, working ok now :svetius:
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
The bummer on this one is view-as-icon is the default in FX. I think the other FMs that do this just don't have that mode (or at least don't have it as default). I think it's a decent "gesture" but we already have the [+] button at the top of the screen.
[Android Apps and Games] FUNimations:
Longtime user of FX explorer, even bought the license key.

I'm loving it on my android devices except android tv.

I'm having issues on my recently bought nvidia shield TV.

When opening a video file (over smb to a w10 device) i can make it start playing in a video player app of choice.

However after a few minutes of playback the app stops and returns to fx explorer.

It doesn't matter which player app i choose, it stops after a few minutes.

After playing with the settings on the shield itself, i tried the awfull es explorer.

But when oping the video through the file browser, the video did keep playing.

Also when the video stops and returns to fx explorer, i cannot open the video file again till i first go up 1 level and then rturn to my folder.

It feels like fx on android tv losses it's samba connection rather quickly.

I haven't tested other network protocols.

Thank you for trying to fix this.

Edit: afterwards i tried a final hail mary and gave my shield a fixed ip. The streaming seemed stable then.

Still strange that es wouldn't show this problem with a dynamic ip addres.
[Android Apps and Games] freshNastea:
:svetius:
[Android Apps and Games] anonymous-bot:
I have a small feature request. I would like to have an option to disable natural sorting. So for example instead of sorting numbers like this:

1

20

30

200

400

3000

I would instead prefer:

1

20

200

30

3000

400
[Android Apps and Games] karatara:
Any chance to add adaptive icon in FX?

Almost all other file explorers includes it already.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Welcome to XDA. Note that you're expected to search before asking :

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=78083558&postcount=4384
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
FX 8.0 Beta / Preview Released

Happy new year!

Because this is a huge update and there are now so many beta testers, I'm holding this at a 20% BETA release initially. If you want it now, try the direct-install links below, it's the same APK signed with the same key.

Changes include:

New adaptive icons within the app, choose between rounded square, square, and circle icons in multiple themes. Adaptive icons are also used internally in the app in places where specific shapes are required, which enables showing larger icons in the same space.

Adaptive icon for app itself.

Replaced sort-by-kind with new implementation that groups higher-level kinds together, visually grouping them into sections (images, video, audio, documents).

Fast scrolling support with labels (e.g. first letter, date, size, depending on sort order).

Fast scrolling support in text editor, text/hex viewers, line/position shown during scroll.

Revamped “Recents” view, with visual grouping by date, showing longer history (one month).

UI updates including rounded menus and dialogs.

Animated transitions for usage pies, path bar. General animation smoothness improvements.

Improved procedure for enabling write-access on MicroSD cards.

New compact “FX Micro” (FXμ) is only 2.9 MiB (1.9 MiB when zipped/downloaded). Has a bare minimum of permissions, which do not include network/internet access. Does not provide/support FX Plus features, and excludes the ExoPlayer-based media player, help, and tutorial.

Reduced size of full FX app from 11.5 MiB to 8.8 MiB (7.2 MiB when zipped/downloaded).

Major architectural code refactor. Optional/advanced features of the app are now entirely separated from the core, enabling building special versions of the app, e.g. FXμ. This is an internal/technical change which will not be apparent to the end user.

General UI and performance improvements throughout the entire app.

FX and FX Micro can be installed at same time. FX Micro can be installed alongside FX 7.2 if desired.

Direct Download: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r7949/FX_r7949.apk

Direct Download (MICRO Version): http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r7949/FXmicro_r7949.apk

Beta Testing G+ Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/101301040394875566704 (join community, then go to https://play.google.com/apps/testing/nextapp.fx )
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Happy new year !

Impressive work on the micro build. Which subjectively also has better looks, at least icon-wise. Any way to turn off adaptive icons everywhere in-app in the "full" build ? I could not figure it out if there is.

Not only is an icon-inside-a-second-icon-inside-a-third-icon a nightmarish Russian-doll-like-monstrosity, it makes application icon listings very, very uncomfortable to use... If the original icons all the way inside are the same color, nearly unusable at a glance.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
The only included icon set is dynamic (adaptive), so it's on by default unless you switch to something else.

The idea with the app icons is to ensure all of them have the same dimension/shape. That background is supposed to be subtle, but agree it doesn't look good on dark themes and will need to be corrected. May need to tweak theme engine a bit to support alternate background colors for dark themes possibly.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the report!

Is this just the transfer dialog? If you click the close button on the dialog, and then view active operations (tap "Windows" menu, tap "Operations"), does the operation show as completed or active?
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
it continues to say its transfering at 99% in the status bar and again in operations it kind of freezes so speed stays as it was when finished etc, so you need to hold close to get rid of it but file does transfer succesfully from what iv seen
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
the problem is worse with bigger files, it hangs and just stops transfering

if there was resume support like andftp it would be amazing but iv had to install andftp to upload to my ftp servers now

hopefully you can figure this out, i love this file explorer so much haha
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Is it just me or is anyone else finding they are getting really erratic wifi transfer speeds?

It starts off extremely slow, about 100k/sec, and slowly increases to maybe around 500k/sec, then it will drop all the way back down to 100k/sec, then it might increase to close to 1000k/sec, then drop all the way back down again.

It's really inconsistent and erratic. I've tried it over my home and work wifi with the same results.

Small files don't really bother me but when I'm trying to transfer a 400+ MB file like I was last night, and it took just over 25minutes to complete, that's painful!
[Android Apps and Games] Hollow.Droid:
I've been using this file manager for months now and its only got better. Two small features/issues I'd love to see addressed. Firstly, if you could add bookmarks to either Windows networks which have been set up or directly to folders within these networks that would be great. Secondly when copying files where one file is named the same you are given the option to overwrite all or cancel. An option to skip the offending file and copy everything else would be greatly appreciated.

Keep up the good work :)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
What protocol are you using? Do you notice a drop in performance only when the screen is off? Does placing the phone closer to your Wi-Fi access point help?

I think I see around 1.6-2 megabytes/second with FTP and SMB, sometimes a little slower (but not much) with SSH. This is on G or N Wifi, with both 1GHz single core and 1.2-1.5GHz dual core phones. 100kb/second is completely unacceptable of course.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
I just checked my router settings. The wifi was set to b+g+n. I changed this to g+n and straight away noticed a significant jump in transfer speed - and it's consistent. Pulling around 800-900kb/sec now. It still jumped up and down slightly but nothing below 700kb/sec. I'm still not getting anything over 1mb/sec though.

I only sit about 5 meters away (at most) from the access point so moving closer makes no difference at all. Seems to perform the same with and without the screen on.