Duo: Holo File Manager w/ Root
This is the free version with ads. A paid version with no ads and no internet permission is also available, along with some free plugins.App website: http://duofm.bitbucket.orgYoutube channel: http://youtube.com/uncopt
Duo: Holo File Manager w/ Root (DuoFM for short, formerly UNCOPT File Browser), aims to be your go-to app for everything file-related on your android device.It is similar to Windows Explorer or Mac finder on your computer. Just like them, it can be used to access files on the device, and also to browse the files on your network or on cloud services.DuoFM combines the features of the popular file managers (like Astro, ES Explorer, Solid Explorer, ...) and root explorers.
Its two main focus points are design and stability.
The application fits perfectly within the modern android holographic (Holo) style that was introduced with Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich or ICS). It looks and feels as if it was one of the apps bundled with the core of android, and follows Google design guidelines perfectly. At the same time, it improves on usability thanks to its innovative dual (split) navigation pane that is fully adjustable, and its navigation spinner in the action bar. DuoFM has also been optimized to adapt its layout on a tablet.
Extra attention is being placed on stability. This is about not crashing and having features that work the way you expect them to. This includes a lot of little things, such as restoring the state correctly when coming back from the background, or reacting to outside changes.
This mindset drove us to take unusual approaches to the way we implemented some of the core features. Those differences might not be noticeable at first, but they participate in making DuoFM rock solid and enable workflows that other applications don't support.
Two of those decisions stand out.
The first is that we developped a native api (in c) to query the filesystem. This allowed us to use the same highly optimized api for accessing files on user accessible storage areas (such as the sdcard) or on root-only partitions. We extended that api to enable access to archive content as if they were simple directories on the filesystem, including nested archives.
The second is that we decided to never create any intermediate copies, not on the filesystem and not in memory. We support opening / sending / copying files of any size, without requiring any space left on the internal or external storage. This is true for all directories: local, remote (over the network or in the cloud), or inside archives. We stream the data to the target directory or application.
The various storage areas (internal memory, sdcards) are automatically detected, including On-The-Go (OTG) USB attachments when available. No user specification is required.
Access to files not located on the device or its attachements is done through plugins. This separation is done to keep the main application small and to let users decide what extra feature to install. The available plugins are listed in the settings.
So far, the following plugins are available (and free):
- LAN: to give access to the local network shares (windows, SAMBA or SMB).
- Google Drive
- SkyDrive
- Dropbox
When superuser (root) is enabled, partitions can be automatically remounted in rw, and permissions (including suid, guid and sticky bits), group and owner can be changed easily.
For details about all the features, our roadmap and how to contact us, please visit our website at http://duofm.bitbucket.org
We also have a bug tracker (no registration is required). You'll find a link to it in the settings of the app or on our webpage.
Category : Productivity
Reviews (30)
I am using AOSP, this is sooo light and has feature that I wanted most ftp plugins.
Totally awesome!!! Love the design! Fast streaming! Light and easy on battery consumption. I hope when I have a 5.0 or higher, you will soon have compatible app. Many apps not support 5.0 yet, you should not be rated low for that. So so much better than es file manager! Please don't ever go away!
Can't judge. Download & install ok but fails trying to open. Android 6.0.1. Sorry.
The more I explore this app the more I like it.
Comprehensive App. Thanks.
Sliding animation could be a little more smoother and interface seems slightly cluttered.
My current favorite. Super fast and responsive devs mean the extra fifth star!
Good app with clean font, easy panes and dual panes that many apps just dont have.
Well I could not Find It. It has Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete, Share, Archive, Permission but no Rename. Bookmark have rename but not files.
I have not use yetvbut i believe
The split option is very useful (although it would be nice if the ad in landscape mode would take less space).
One of the best, if not the best.
Really awesome, the plug in to connect to a computer is very useful. Best file browser !!
There should be support for opening zip files, and there should be open with option for files.
Love the look and speed of it, but its terrible for opening files, and can't even open .zip. Also it made my music stop responding for some reason, only after uninstalling this could I open my music app again.
None of the files can be opened by the inbuilt viewers. Good look though.. could be much much better.. In the meantime, have a look at the X-plore file browser.. it had a dual pane view since ages and it has its own internal file viewers.. and best of all, it is completely free
I love the design of this. It would replace any other fm it just needs more file associations, ability to open with external app. For some reason es is the only fm that can upload to my schools website. Hope you can get that working too. I'd love to pay for this and use it everywhere if those get working.
Just the best file explorer with all the features you need. Love the dual window
Excellent work, one of the best I have used.
Great apparently keep up the good work
Needs allot of optimization performance-wise (transitions lag on my Galaxy S 3) but otherwise shows allot of promise. Visually it's the best I've seen, and I actually like the whole layout and usability allot. As others have pointed out, needs better networking integration. When everything's sorted, I'd be happy to buy the add free version. Also, the app icon could be better!
Form and function all rolled up into one. Although, there hasn't been an update... So I'm hesitant to purchase an app that doesn't see much progress. A shame if this great app goes dark, please update! Could be ALOT smoother as well.
This is a great Holo file manager. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find a way to send files over Bluetooth: it isn't listed in the "send to" dialog.
great holo file browser! but paid version is too much expensive...
A little laggy sometimes, but promising, I'd recommend it to anyone with a stock 4.0+ ROM. If it turns out to be usable and good in the long term (and the development won't stop) I will probably buy the paid version.
This could replace ES file explorer for me, but it needs FTP and SMB support! Would buy if it was updated more frequently. Keep up the good work, it looks great!
Cannot hide UI elements. App size not that small.
A must try
Sub par performance, optimizations are required. The UI is very nice on my Galaxy Nexus.
I will never know as it crashes without opening. Nice.