AccordingtotheintroductionofTBergkvist,LightFileExplorerisaToolsappontheAndroidplatform.Thereiscurrentlya1.15versionreleasedonJan25,2017,youcanseethedetailsbelow.
LightFileExplorer(LightFE)isasmallfilemanagerapp.Notice!Nougat:
ForNougat,LightFE'sfunctionalityislimited:
Notalltoplevelfilesandfoldersareshown.AndonemightnotbeabletoopenfilesfromwithinLightFEinNougat.
Notice!KitKatandhigher:
ForKitKatandhigher,LightFEcurrentlyonlyhavereadaccesstoremovablesdcards(exceptfortheapp's/Android/datafolder,whichofcourseiswritable).
AndUSBsticksmightnotbeaccessibleatallinLightFEinKitKatandhigher.
LightFEdoesNOThavearecyclebinfordeleteditems.
ItdoesNOThavefeaturesforconnectingtootherdevices.
ItdoesNOTprovideanyweborcloudconnections.
ItdoesNOTsupportcompressing/extractingarchiveswithpasswordprotection.
LightFEcanhavemultiplebrowseandsearchviews.
Onlyoneviewisvisibleatatime.
Thisapp'sguiisratherrudimentaryandverytextual.No(spaceoccupying)iconsrepresentingfilesandfolders.Ithasnobuttontoolbars.
Allactionsareaccessedviatheapp'sthreemenus:
-File/foldercontextmenu,forfileoperations.
-Viewbuttoncontextmenu,forviewrelatedactions.
-Mainmenuforvariousactions.
Ithasanextensivesearchfunction,whereoneforexamplecansearchforobjectsthathaveacertainpermissionorarehidden.
Supportedfileoperations:
open(default,orforceastextorimage);
copyto;
moveto;
rename;
delete;
compress&extract(ziporgzip);
showchecksum;
showproperties;
attach-to-email;
comparefolders;
createnewemptyfileandfolder;
Whichfile/folderattributestoshowisconfigurable.Itispossibleto,uptoaconfigurablelimit,directlyinfolderlistingsseethecumulativesize,andnumberofsubitems,offolders.
Thereisamultiselectfeature,butonlyforfiles-notfolders.
Modestpermissionrequirements-itonlyrequiresaccesstoexternalstorage.
Freeandnoads.
Localizations:English
