Hello there!
I've chosen to work on building a user interface for file managing on android tablets for my special problem, one of my subjects this semester. So in order to graduate, I need the help of some willing testers to test out my app.
Here's a demonstration of the features it has:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNcyT5iwLyU
Some things to take note of:
There's no up folder button, so you can't go past /mnt/sdcard when going up the directory hierarchy
if /mnt/sdcard is not your internal sdcard's default mount path, then it'll crash
When you swipe horizontally too fast to switch tabs, it does some funky stuff making one pane invisible. touch the other pane again to make it appear again.
You CAN'T cancel a copy or past operation when it has started.
Don't do stuff like copying or moving a file to the same folder it currently is in. if you move a file or folder to the same folder, it will get deleted.
Just perform normal file operations. Avoid trivial cases as mentioned above.
I'll admit, it's not the best file manager. Features are scarce, the code is not that optimized both in running time and in memory allocation, and there are a lot of checking that needs to be done (like when your sdcard is currently mounted in usb mass storage mode). But my focus is the user interface and not the back end, so please excuse these things.
So here's the link for the app: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16398746/Files.apk
And here's the link for the evaluation form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEVQeElJb3QyR05kLUN0akliV0ExbEE6MQ#gid=0
Thank you very much! I'm open to comments here in XDA so just comment ahead and please be gentle with me, it's my first app.
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Hi guys, hopefully a stupid noob question that I can't seem to figure out.
I'm a bit of an organizational freak (as I'm sure many of you are), and like having sub-folders within main folders.
For example, I have some e-books on my Fuze and like having sub-folders with the author name.
So, folder structure looks like
\Storage_Card\ebooks\Edgar_Allen_Poe\...
When I go to open an ebook in MobiPocket, I cannot see that sub-folder (only the main path to ebooks).
The same issue plagues me with other programs, such as PocketNester...I'm assuming it has something to do with the Windows Mobile method of scanning directories in the file open dialog.
Anybody else have this problem?
I have noticed this in other apps, but never used mobipocket, so I think it's the behavior of the WinMo file manager as well. Maybe you need to put your directories on the root of the storage card. Have you tried shortcuts? Doubt it will work and it would probably drive you nuts that your shortcuts arent neatly organized in subfolders...
I don't think you can use sub-folders with mobipocket (or ereader). If you want things organized, then I would do something like put #'s or letters at the start of each author's books to keep them organized together (1-xxx, 1-yyy for the 1st author, 2-aaa, 2-bbb for the second, where the xxx's are the book names).
I find the file explorer in some apps pretty annoying, too. Like in pocket rar, you can create an archive for things like cab files. If you want to add to the archive, then it has to be on the storage card and in the root of any of the main folders on the storage card. That is annoying as crap. There are other situations where you can save a file in either main memory or storage memory, and you'll only have access to root folders, or sometimes in the main memory only to the folders in \my documents. It's like the person who designed this crap was auditioning for a job with apple to work on iphone development. I wish I knew a work-around (other than cutting-and-pasting after saving things), but I don't.
Hello there!
I've chosen to work on building a user interface for file managing on android tablets for my special problem, one of my subjects this semester. So in order to graduate, I need the help of some willing testers to test out my app.
I'll admit, it's not the best file manager. Features are scarce, the code is not that optimized both in running time and in memory allocation, and there are a lot of checking that needs to be done (like when your sdcard is currently mounted in usb mass storage mode). But my focus is the user interface and not the back end, so please excuse these things.
Here's a demonstration of the features it has:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNcyT5iwLyU
Some things to take note of:
There's no up folder button, so you can't go past /mnt/sdcard when going up the directory hierarchy
if /mnt/sdcard is not your internal sdcard's default mount path, then it'll crash
When you swipe horizontally too fast to switch tabs, it does some funky stuff making one pane invisible. touch the other pane again to make it appear again.
You CAN'T cancel a copy or past operation when it has started.
Don't do stuff like copying or moving a file to the same folder it currently is in. if you move a file or folder to the same folder, it will get deleted.
Just perform normal file operations. Avoid trivial cases as mentioned above.
So here's the link for the app: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16398746/Files.apk
And here's the link for the evaluation form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEVQeElJb3QyR05kLUN0akliV0ExbEE6MQ#gid=0
Thank you very much! I'm open to comments here in XDA so just comment ahead and please be gentle with me, it's my first app.
nice work!
I really like the ui! Its better than for ex. In astro
But: i didnt manage to go "higher" than mnt/sdcard, so i wasnt able to see my micro sd.(how) can i do that?
And: could you add a picture preview?
Maybe you could do something that the back button works?
But all in all, i like it because of the simple buttons, the drag and drop option and its really cool.
Sry for my bad english ;D
Ok, I'm donating my ns4g to the cause but i want to pull all my info before i wipe and drop in the mail. I have gotten quite a bit of data from it so far but can't seem to find some files i know are there. I would just do a backup but since screen broke i can't confirm to proceed.
Mounting shows nothing in my computer..it asks for me to insert disk. Anyway, pulling with abd works perfectly. What i would like is for someone to maybe post me a list of the folders on sdcard..excluding your personal downloads. I just need a list and not actual folders. I don't need subfolders. I don't need the root system folders. Just the ones that are on the sd. Like mainly the path to dcim/100andro, any folders that would be made to store screenshots or images downloaded from web browser and/apps. And the names of the hidden ones. Can't remember if only one of those.
To my understanding this will be helping to keep one of the ns4g roms alive as is going to talented dev with working screen! Thanks! Like said, just need a list of basic sdcard folders Android uses.
Hey guys, I've been searched for many hours trying to find a solution to this problem I'm having. Let me first explain what I'm trying to do and the reason for it.
Basically I have Dropbox setup to auto sync encrypted files to a folder on my sdcard, lets say:
/storage/sdcard1/encrypted_notes/
Then I have Cryptonite installed and have created an encfs mount in my data folder here:
/data/data/share.encrypted/
I've created the mount point there because simply put, I don't want my decrypted files on the sdcard accessible by every other app that has access to the entire sdcard.
At the moment, /data/data/share.encrypted is chowned by the uid & gid that is assigned to Cryptonite.
Now I want my note reading app to be able to access all files in that folder so my plan was to simple add the note reading apps' UID to the GID of Cryptonite.
That's what I've been searching google to figure out how to do, add a UID of an app to a GID of another app in android.
Sounds simple enough, but I have no idea how to do it. There is no "groupadd" command in android as far as I can tell, nor does busybox have this command.
Is there some other way to do do this?
Or even... some other way I can setup my system so the decrypted notes are still available by both apps and no other app?
Any help is really appreciated. Thanks
I thought I had something going, I managed to change the group owner of the notes folder
/data/data/share.encrypted/ to uid of the notes program and gid of cryptonite and successfully mounted
/storage/sdcard1/encrypted_notes/ into that directory using cryptonite, and on top of that was able to edit the files in the notes program only to discover two things.
Firstly, mounting that encrypted notes folder to the data folder uses the filesystem permissions of the encrypted_notes folder on the SD Card (obviously), something I didn't think of - basically making /data/data/share.encrypted/ world write/readable to any app that has access to SD Card.
So doesn't really help me in terms of keeping things secure.
So then I thought of a new idea, creating a separate partition ext4 on my SD Card, making *that* folder my encrypted notes sync folder owned by the notes program uid and cryptonite as group and instead mount that, until I then realized, I need a 3rd app to have r/w access to this encrypted notes folder... my notes syncing app - FolderSync -
So now I think I'm back to square one. The easiest way to do all of this that I can think of (on a Linux system) would be to add the 3 apps to a group and just have the folder r/w by that group (and therefore those 3 apps).
But after lots of continued research the past few days... I'm finding that Android is very very anti-this-idea in the fact that it really really doesn't like apps sharing data (except universally shared data on the SD Card) and I can't figure out a way to assign apps to additional groups beyond their initial group that is created just for them. :crying:
I found another similar discussion about the non-security of storing your cryptonite unencrypted notes on world readable sd card here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1561339
With the following two points which are my personal concern as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25837127
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26265852
I'm having a really difficult & frustrating time here.
Any thoughts anyone?
I have run out of space on my phone. (Again. Why can't I add an sdcard to this nexus thing dammit?) I'm going through the Storage sections under Settings, picking and choosing what I want to keep and discard. There's a number of items appearing in Downloads that I want to move to my PC, but I can't find the files and the only commands available are Open, Delete and Share.
How do I locate the items so can copy them?
My phone is not rooted and is running Lollipop 5.1.1.
Downloads as shown in from Settings >> Storage:
i.imgur.com/LzJz05I.png
Downloads as seen by ES File Explorer:
i.imgur.com/EJZUHYu.png
(sorry, no active links. I don't have the reputation to post links).
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but the first image shows the list of things that you've downloaded (and then maybe moved to another folder?) while the second shows what is in your downloads folder now. In other words, one image shows an application, the other shows files.
The Downloads app seems to show items downloaded in the traditional sense (like from my browser, those are the items also seen in 2nd screen shot)
as well as items downloaded by apps, and these are saved somewhere else, not in /sdcard/download.
My question is how do I follow the items from the Download app to their actual location, so I can do something with them?
Double tap on the item opens it. Long press selects it. I need to copy it (or rename or move or...)
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If my suggestion is correct, and nobody so far has contradicted it, then the download list needn't correspond in any way to what's actually on your phone at this moment. You may have moved the files, deleted them... there may not be anything to find. What you're seeing is just your file download history, not what actually exists now.
One tool that I find invaluable for this sort of thing is Search Everything - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marlon.searcheverything
It indexes all your files and displays them on the fly - as you type each letter the list of files shown diminishes until you're left with the one you're looking for. If you're looking for a downloaded file then it shouldn't be hidden in an unreachable system folder requiring root. If Search Everything doesn't find what you're looking for, it's a pretty safe bet that it's been deleted.
On your comment about the reason for your question, that your phone is getting full, have you tried Disk Usage to see where the heavy usage is? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
And finally consider Stickmount - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount
In combination with an OTG cable (a couple of dollars) and a USB stick, Stickmount allows you to store files on the USB stick, so you can have effectively unlimited storage.