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@The412Banner The412Banner released this 01 Sep 19:29
v0.2
d9f30a0

BFE is a standalone, sideload-only Android file manager & explorer with a full native archive / GOG-installer extraction engine — the in-app File Manager from Bannerlator, lifted into its own app. GPL-3.0.

✨ New in 0.2 — Dual-pane (split view)

A commander-style two-panel mode for fast extraction and copy/paste between two locations, no back-and-forth:

  • Toggle it from the toolbar (persisted). Off = the classic single pane.
  • Side-by-side on wide screens / landscape (≥600dp), stacked top/bottom in portrait.
  • Each pane is fully independent — its own folder, selection, sort, view mode, scroll. Tap a pane to make it active (highlighted); actions apply to the active pane.
  • Copy → / Move → the active pane's selection straight into the other pane's folder (real progress + overwrite/merge/keep-both/skip conflict handling).
  • Extract into the other pane: in dual-pane, extracting an archive/GOG setup defaults its destination to the other pane's current folder — one-tap "extract here → into there" (still overridable).

Everything else (from 0.1)

  • Browse with drive/path bar + storage-root switcher (Internal / SD / USB); sort by name/size/date/type; in-folder search; grid + list views (persisted).
  • Multi-select: copy, cut, delete, share; copy/move/delete/rename with progress, conflict resolution, and cancel; create new folder.
  • Favorites, file properties + read-only toggle, show/hide hidden files, image thumbnails, and .exe icon extraction.
  • Full extraction stack: 7z / zip / rar / iso, InnoSetup & GOG offline installers (including automatic DLC batch extraction of sibling setup_*.exe), and FreeArc/ISDone repacks — with a minimizable background progress pill.
  • Open with, Install APK, and Share — plus BFE registers as an "Open with" / Share target so you can hand archives and files to it from other apps.

Requirements

  • Android 8.0+ (API 26), arm64-v8a only.
  • On first run, grant All-files access — the native extractors write real files and can't go through the scoped-storage picker.

Install

Sideload BFE-0.2.apk (enable "install unknown apps" for your browser/file manager if prompted). This is a separate app (com.the412banner.bfe) — it won't touch any other install.

Signing & integrity

  • Signed with a test key (CN=BFE Test) — APK Signature Scheme v1 + v2 + v3 (verified). This is a test/dev key, not a Play/production key.
  • APK SHA-256: 6f176d60e60144bf8ac1a1b30b0bc9b394f99102548033ab0775b3314d67c80c

Known limitations (honest)

  • Dual-pane split is fixed 50/50 (drag-to-resize not yet).
  • Breadcrumb is a drive-chip + full-path bar, not yet clickable-segmented.
  • Errors surface as toasts (not snackbars); no predictive-back animation (targetSdk 28; Back itself works).
  • An inherited "Games" quick-link points at a Winlator path and only appears if that folder exists.
  • Status: build-verified + CI-green + signature-verified — not yet device-proven.

Built from d9f30a0 · CI run 33548724435.

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