Filen Files 0.4.3

What's new in 0.4.3

• New look, matching the Stack app: simpler Settings (tap a row for its options), round storage tiles on Home, cleaner bars and dialogs.
• Dark mode is still there (Settings > Theme).

Install: download the APK on an arm64 Android 8.0+ phone and open it. Updates install over the previous release.

Filen Files 0.4.2

What's new in 0.4.2

• Apps can ask Filen Files for a backup folder: one Allow tap, no folder browsing. Stack uses this for "Use Filen Drive".
• An app you allowed this way can keep backing up while Filen Files is locked, only in its own folder (old backups go to the Filen trash). Turn it off in Settings > Security.

Install: download the APK on an arm64 Android 8.0+ phone and open it. Updates install over the previous release.

Filen Files 0.4.1

What's new in 0.4.1

• App lock: apps you gave a Filen folder (for example Finance) can read that folder while Filen Files is locked, if you allow it. Filen Files asks once after you unlock; change it in Settings > Security.
• App lock: Filen Drive now shows in other apps' folder pickers while locked, with an unlock button.
• Fix: other apps could reach Filen while the app sat in the background past its lock time.

Install: download the APK on an arm64 Android 8.0+ phone and open it. Updates install over the previous release.

Filen Files 0.4.0

Filen Files 0.4.0

New: Stack-style look and a Theme setting (system / light / dark); tap a .zip to browse it and open single files; add files to a zip (also from a file's menu); copy, move and delete while previewing a file; round + button for upload / new folder; Free up space and Trash as Tools tiles on Home. Fixed: the update notice lingering after you had already installed the update.

Install: download the APK on an arm64 Android 8.0+ phone and open it (allow installs from your browser/file manager when asked). Then sign in to Filen, or skip for local-only, and grant All files access. Updates install over the previous release.

Filen Files 0.3.1

0.3.1 - more reliable saving from other apps

• Files that another app (for example a backup app) saves into Filen Drive keep uploading even when Android would not allow a background service: the app now falls back to a scheduled background job, and unfinished uploads resume the next time the app starts.
• Those files show up in the folder immediately, with a status line (Uploading, Waiting for network, Upload failed: reason), survive the app being restarted, and the finished file appears in the listing without a gap.
• Browsing a Filen folder from another app while the phone is offline now shows the last known contents plus pending uploads instead of an error.

Update: Settings > Updates > Check now, or the notice on Home.

Filen Files 0.3.0

New in 0.3.0

• Cloud storage: connect a Google Drive (or Dropbox, OneDrive, Nextcloud...) folder from Files > Add cloud storage. Browse, open, copy, move, save to device, zip, rename and delete work like everywhere else, and files and folders can be copied between Filen, the cloud storage and the phone. It works through the storage apps already on your phone (nothing to sign in to here); Google Docs/Sheets/Slides show as read-only exports; cloud storage is not searched.
• Free up space (from 0.2.1): duplicate and large-file finder.

Known: once during testing a first multi-file copy into a brand-new cloud folder reported done but the files did not appear; it could not be reproduced. If you see anything like it, please open an issue.

Update: Settings > Updates > Check now, or the notice on Home.

Filen Files 0.2.1

New: Free up space (Home) finds duplicate files and your largest files on the phone or in Filen Drive, keeps one copy of each set and deletes the rest only after you confirm (Filen deletions go to the Filen trash).

Update: if you installed 0.2.0 from here, Settings > Updates > Check now (or the notice on Home) will offer this version; open the downloaded file to update.

Filen Files 0.2.0

Install: download Filen-Files.apk below on an Android 8.0+ arm64 phone and open it. Sign in to Filen (or skip for local-only) and grant All files access. If you have an earlier test build signed with a different key, uninstall it first.

New in 0.2.0

• Copy, move and save to device between Filen, shared and phone storage (folders too)
• Multi-select with batch actions; zip / unzip; file version history
• Upload and copy queue that survives the app being killed
• Camera backup to a Filen folder (Wi-Fi only by default, new photos only, sorted by month)
• Settings: app lock, hide contents in recent apps, daily update check (can be switched off)
• Smaller app (code shrinking), home storage layout toggle, many fixes

Licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later. mapping-0.2.0.txt is only needed to read crash traces.

Filen Files 0.1.0

Install: download the APK on an arm64 Android 8.0+ phone and open it (allow installs from your browser/file manager when asked). Then sign in to Filen, or skip for local-only, and grant All files access. Updates install over the previous release.