I wouldn't recommend ES File Explorer, it was removed from Playstore for a reason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_File_Explorer
There's a very good file manager MiXplorer that can be downloaded from playstore or from the XDA-developers website, here's the thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523691
- Thank you for the recommendation. Please take into context that this is Minix Forum, and I was not reccomending any explorer whatsoever, just pointing out that ,should a Minix user need to perform an action related to the thread title, there is a tool in the device to help perform a task he needed to perform.
- Regarding the ES File Explorer itself, the versions supplied with the Minix boxes, are still to proove more unsafe than the next app available at the Play Store. Yet they are probably safer than advising someone to install an app from a website from outside the Google Play Store envyronment. That is something I really can not recomend unless strong labeling it "at your own risk".
- In what concerns your recommended explorer, I tried to go for it yet I can't find a free version at the Play Store, there is however a paid version
available. Besides, I found that the website asks for a registration for someone to be able to download the free version. I could have taken the risk to provide whatever data they would require, at my own responsibility, yet I couldn't see any function advertised to benefit this particular thread any further and make it any more valid than what has been said so far about this subject.
- To make it clear, in what other explorer apps are concerned, I can recommend X-Plore, backed up by the fact it is replacing ES File Explorer in the new U22-XJ box, and I can also recommend CX File Explorer, both available from the Play Store and used by trusted members of this forum. Please note however this recommendations don't have anything to do with the subject in the title above.
- Regarding the safety of any app, I can recommmend any user to take great care downloading and providing data to access apps from outside the Google Play Store. When downloading apps from the Play Store take into consideration the list of permissions the app requires, easy to check from the app settings folder. Keep in mind that a safe app today can become unsafe from a simple update tomorrow. Should you concern much about apps safety keep updated with what is said in the media, have in mind an opinion is like a nose, everybody has one, and that in what has to do with software you should mistrust everything and everybody:
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