BFE — standalone, sideload-only Android file manager & explorer: native archive extraction/compression, dual-pane commander mode, SAF + root app-storage browsing, APK cloner + signer — and now a video converter. GPL-3.0.
✨ New in 0.10
🎬 Convert to MP4… (game FMVs and any video)
- ⋮ on a video, or multi-select → Convert to MP4… → quality (Fast / Balanced / High), resolution (Keep / 1080p / 720p / 480p), audio (keep / none), destination (this pane / other pane). Batch converts sequentially; runs as a background job with the progress pill, notification and cancel like everything else.
- Powered by a bundled static ffmpeg 7.1.5 + x264 (a lean 6.8 MB arm64 binary, built by CI and exec'd like the other engines).
- Reads: Bink 1 (
.bik), Smacker (.smk), WMV/ASF, AVI, MKV/WebM, MOV/MP4/M4V/3GP, MPG/MPEG/TS, OGV, FLV — video codecs H.264 / HEVC / VP8 / VP9 / MPEG-1/2/4 / WMV1-3 / VC-1 / Theora / Cinepak / Indeo 3-5 / MJPEG; audio AAC / MP3 / Vorbis / Opus / WMA / AC3 / Bink & Smacker audio / PCM / ADPCM. - Writes: MP4 with H.264 + AAC (
+faststart, yuv420p — plays everywhere). ⚠️ Bink 2 (.bk2) is proprietary and nothing open-source can decode it — BFE detects it and says so instead of failing cryptically. Encoding is software (x264): quick for 480p/720p cutscenes, slow for 4K.
📦 .apk files show their real icon
List, grid and compact views now render the app's launcher icon parsed from the APK (File, SAF and root locations) — no more blank entries. Also used in the Clone/Edit APK dialog header.
📄 New file…
The New button is now New ▾ → Folder / File… — create an empty file on normal storage, SAF or root locations (root creations are chown'd back to the owning app). Text-like files offer Open with… right away.
Everything else
Extraction progress fix (0.9.1) · toolbar never clips (0.9) · APK cloner + signer (0.8) · compress to zip/7z/tar/tzst/.wcp (0.7) · root any-app browsing (0.6) · pinnable SAF app storage (0.5) · dual-pane commander · full extraction stack (7z/zip/rar/iso, InnoSetup/GOG + DLC batch, FreeArc) · Open-with / Install-APK / Share.
Requirements & install
- Android 8.0+, arm64-v8a only; grant All-files access on first run; root (Magisk) optional.
- Sideload
BFE-0.10.apk(~28 MB). Separate app (com.the412banner.bfe).
Signing & integrity
- Signed with the repo's public test key (
CN=BFE Test), schemes v1 + v2 + v3 (verified). Compare the SHA-256 before installing. - APK SHA-256:
58f8f5d2f18ae5daffa3108ff0bab99bf613549f6afe4a38a251d4efe2ee243c - The bundled ffmpeg was verified by running the exact binary from this APK: static aarch64 ELF, testsrc → H.264/AAC mp4 confirmed. Converter UI not yet device-run.
Built from 606c1fc · CI run 33617124598.