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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Suggestion for a nice File manager? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As title, I just need a simple file manager, open source and with minimal permissions.. anything good you think I should try?

Edit: can someone ELI5 to me why almost every file manager needs full network access and to see wifi connections? There must a reason..

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you really want an explanation?

Android permissions are confusing though, I already asked GrapheneOS devs to add more granular permissions but it turned out its not needed.

Internet permissions suck, but needed for remote SMB shares etc.

All the file access is of course because it is a filemanager, same as with "query all apps"

Foreground app and wakelock are to prevent Android killing stuff like Archive actions I guess, so it is necessary.