Cabinet is a feature-rich file explorer for Android
I sometimes browse files on my Android device, for instance after transferring an apk file or other data to the device to execute it.
While the default file browser works for that, it is basic and lacks lots of features that third-party file managers offer.
Update: Cabinet has not been updated for years. While you can still use it, we suggest you use Amaze instead which is another free file manager for Android.
Cabinet
Cabinet is a free file manager for Android 4.1 and up that works out of the box just like the native file browser does on devices running Android.
All folders and files of the selected storage location are displayed in the apps' interface by default. It is easy enough to switch between storage locations as that option is provided directly in the sidebar settings menu which you can open from home.
The top bar of the app lists search and filtering options. You may change how folders and files are displayed for instance or display only audio or image files for the time being.
Navigation is fast and there is almost no delay when you switch to another folder on the device.
The handling of files is as efficient. A tap opens it on the device while a long tap displays options to delete it or share it.
A tap on the menu icon next to each folder and file on the other hand displays the same and additional file processing options such as moving it, opening it as, renaming it or archiving it which saves it as a zip file to the same folder.
The sidebar menu lists favorite folders that you can open quickly from there. DCIM, Download, Music and Pictures are displayed there by default. To add another folder there simply tap on its menu icon and select the bookmark option to do so. Existing bookmarks, even default ones, can be removed from the listing with a long-tap and the selection of delete.
A tap on the plus button in the interface lets you create new files and folders on the device and access remote servers using SFTP.
If you select the latter you are taken to a configuration page where you enter the hostname, username and related information. There you can also test the connection and once that is done, add it permanently to the app.
All remote connections you have configured are available in the sidebar menu from that moment on. Note that you don't have to save the password as you can leave it blank so that you are prompted for it whenever you access the remote server.
Folders can be pinned to the homescreen of the device and not only the sidebar. If you are using a folder regularly it may be prove useful.
The settings let you change the default color scheme of the application and add or remove certain information from its listings.
There you find for instance an option to display the directory count in the file manager which displays how many files and folders are filed under a folder.
Cabinet is in beta currently. You may also notice the "offers in-app purchases" notification on Google Play. This is only used for donations currently.
Verdict
Cabinet is a fast useful file manager for Android. While it lacks some features currently that apps like ES File Explorer support, adding storage locations besides SFTP for instance, it should not be an issue for the majority of Android users.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?