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After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers
After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers
File management is still horrendous on android.
Not with the right file manager. That’s the whole point: on iOS, you don’t have any options. On Android, the file system is available, and you can use non-default tools for it.
The problem is people utterly refusing to think outside the defaults.
Is there anything even wrong with the default Google file manager? It works pretty well from my experience
Lack of support for SMB is about the only thing missing that I care about from it. There is an add-on app Google released years back for it, but they haven’t updated it in years and it was broken the last time I tried to use it.
Not really. The biggest problem I have with file management on android is from crossplatform apps that assume the user is on iOS. E.g. The patreon app saves every image as “patreon image.png” in the downloads folder rather than keeping the uploader’s filename or letting me specify where I want it, and the bluesky app saves everything to my “photo reel” (i.e the DCIM folder). Both things that don’t happen if I open them from a browser.
ES File Manager had it figured out 10 years ago. Then it died without a good alternative, but the old version still works pretty well.
There are usable file managers, that’s not really the issue. But no two pieces of software seem to agree as to where data ought to be.
Finding anything in that shitty maze of directories is a nightmare. And lots of crap accumulates in downloads for no obvious reason.
New versions of Android are effectively breaking file managers, “for security”
How so? I’ve just upgraded, so want to know what I’m now missing out on.
You just have to grant some extra permissions now.
As well as the complete mess made by having updates handled by manufacturers. So if they can’t be arsed, you get no updates. Wonderful.
And I’ve no idea why each of them needs to fuck with the settings menus so much. Google “how to change such-and-such on Android”, and unless you bought a really popular flagship model you’ll be there all day trying to find if it’s even in your version or not.
“Material Files”