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ES File Explorer was very good at the beginning, but it enshittified quickly. Nowadays MaterialFiles is the best file explorer for Android, and it has more features than ES had ever. And it's open source so it can't have a similar fate. Google Play link, F-droid link
I would counter that I still feel Solid Explorer is the best, but I'm aware that's just my opinion.
Looks nice! I use the Fossify File Manager; they seem very similar.
Fossify looks similar, but it misses some crucial features I use frequently. I downloaded it now to check it, Material can do these things, while Fossify can't:
- Open multiple windows for commander like usage
- Connect to remote shares with SFTP, FTP, SMB or Webdav
- Connect to app storage with Storage Access Framework
Material files doesn't have anywhere near enough. ES File Explorer could open a bunch of files, a text editor, sftp, ftp, audio, image viewer, etc. ES File Explorer was intolerable on the free version, but if you paid a few quid, you got a perfect product.
Total Commander is pretty solid although unfortunately not FOSS. Even allows you to share files via WiFi etc.
MaterialFiles can connect to ftp, sftp, webdav and smb. It has a text editor. There is built in image viewer and music player in most roms nowadays, and MaterialFiles has an "open with" option where you can select what you want to do with a file.
I still miss Swype.
To this day it is still better than every other keyboard I've tried at recognising traces.
Microsoft has taken Swift and run it to the ground. Then it asks how it's doing as if they've improved it. The fucking gall.
The list is missing Google Now. A feature so useful Google cut it because it was reducing searches.
Inbox was fantastic. I used an older version well after the shutdown date.
This list of apps is ridiculous and none of them were even noteworthy.
Titanium Backup is the exception for me. All the others... π€·ββοΈπββοΈ
I enjoyed Swype before it sold out to Microsoft.
It was a really excellent keyboard.
Best keyboard I've ever used. I even used a deprecated version for a long time before it just stopped working on my phone.
Google Play music was pretty good. simple and effective. easy to use.
Google podcasts was trash
YouTube music is ... well it's just kinda bad
wait, do I have that backwards? is it Google Podcasts that was good, and Google Play music that was trash? one of them was basically impossible to use for podcasts, like if you just wanted to find what you had downloaded, that was literally not an option you had to go to the podcast and then filter by downloads
This list is kinda of nostalgic to me. When I was younger, I was obessed with andriod mods and rooting videos on YouTube, and I remeber all those apps getting recommened in videos!
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