Dirent: File Manager

A complete file manager. Around 160 KB. Yes, kilobytes. Smaller than a typical photo, with browsing, search, thumbnails, ZIP support and Trash built in. No ads. No trackers. No analytics. No accounts. No “upgrade to premium” when you try to do something useful. Just your files. And a very small app to manage them. ⚡ SMALL IS THE SIZE. FAST IS THE POINT. • Open folders without starting over. Dirent caches listings and checks for changes when you return. • Search as you type. Results appear as folders are scanned, while an on-disk index speeds up repeat searches. • Scroll while thumbnails load. Images decode in the background to keep the interface responsive. Performance is measured on real hardware, with a benchmark harness to reproduce the results. There’s even a “Stats for nerds” overlay if you’d rather see the numbers yourself. 🖱 YOUR MOUSE ISN’T AN AFTERTHOUGHT Plug in a mouse or use your Chromebook’s trackpad. Dirent knows what to do. • Rows highlight on hover. • The scroll wheel scrolls. • Right-click opens a folder’s card. • Side buttons take you back and forward through your history. Give Dirent a wider window and it puts the space to work: two panes, a places sidebar, tabs across the top and a permissions column. Compact on a phone. Room to work on a tablet or Chromebook. 🔍 FIND IT WITHOUT REMEMBERING WHERE YOU PUT IT Search the current folder and everything beneath it. Results stream in while the search runs, so you can open a match without waiting for the scan to finish. A per-volume name index makes later searches faster and refreshes quietly in the background. 📁 THE FEATURES YOU OPENED A FILE MANAGER FOR • List and grid views, with file sizes, dates and permissions. • Copy, move, rename and delete, with progress and cancellation for background jobs. • Clear choices when files conflict: keep both, replace, merge or skip. Nothing gets overwritten silently. • Create and extract ZIP archives. • Open tabs with independent navigation history and scroll position. • Return to folders where you left off, with per-folder scroll memory. • Navigate with an autocompleting path bar. • See storage totals for media, documents and downloads. • Move files to Trash and restore them to their original location. • Optional root and Shizuku backends, off by default. 🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN Dirent has no network permission. No analytics SDK. No crash-reporting service. No ad framework. It doesn’t send your filenames, searches or usage to a server. The privacy policy is short because the list of things we collect is shorter: nothing. 🛠 SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING UNDER THE HOOD The optional “Stats for nerds” overlay shows frame rate, CPU usage, cache hit rates, scan costs and thumbnail activity over any screen. You shouldn’t have to take “fast” on faith. REQUIREMENTS • Android 11 or newer • OpenGL ES 3.0 • All files access permission, so Dirent can manage your files Your storage is for your files. Your file manager should leave room for them. Around 160 KB. Go on, check.