WiFi File Explorer PRO

by Dooblou

Product Details

• ASIN: B004OZOTSQ
• Original Release Date: March 15, 2011
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 15, 2011
Rated: All Ages This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (314 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549 Paid in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Paid in Appstore for Android)
  • #10 in Appstore for Android > Productivity

Product Features

• Manage files between your Android device and computer without using a cable
• View and send photos and other files from your phone via a secure Wi-Fi connection
• See all files in a password-protected Web browser
• Stream music from your phone directly to your computer
• Configure port settings to your preferences

Technical Details

• Size: 1.7MB
• Version: 1.8.2
• Developed By: Dooblou
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Set the wallpaper
  • Open network sockets
  • Write to external storage
  • Read or write the system settings
  • Change Wi-Fi connectivity state
  • Access information about Wi-Fi networks
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
• Minimum Operating System: Android 1.6
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 30 seconds

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

399 of 439 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice App, But Must Be Careful August 12, 2011

By R. Wilson

Amazon Verified Purchase

I've used serveral different types of apps like this to transfer files between my machines and this one works just as great as the others and is a very good app.

If it has any negatives I would say it is less clear on stopping sharing once you are finished with it. Most of the other apps have a "Stop" button in one for or another, this one does not. To stop the server you must hit the back button, if you exit using the home button it will leave it running in the background leaving your phone open to anyone familiar with the program to steal your data if your on a public wifi or somewhere else besides your home.

With the default configuration being no password, I can see a lot of users accidently hitting hitting the home button and leaving their phones wide open. Peole just don't pay attention, they need big buttons that say "stop" and "start".

So great app, but I would warn people, make sure you exit using the back button so you don't leave your phone wide open to those who would steal your data and to the developer, I'd make a big STOP button because most user are trained to exit apps using the home button which in this case is a security risk. As such thats why I give it 3 stars, because anything that leaves a phone wide open for attack using a normal way of exiting is flawed.

If developers could all agree on one way to exit an app this wouldn't be a problem with me, but as it stands a lot of devs disable the back button to get users to use the Home button to exit, which in this case will leave the service running.

Not as many features or easy to use like some of the other browser based explorers like LazyDroid or Remote Web Desktop (both with stop and start buttons because Android info is so varied on how to exit properly), but an OK app I do like it.

My 2 cents . Feel free to comment but Amazon has banned me from replying (false accusation that I'm a dev leaving fake revies, even though I've never written an app in my life Amazon just won't listen, quite frustrating). So I cannot comment back.

169 of 193 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Secure August 12, 2011

By Vincent Trigili

Amazon Verified Purchase

Product does exactly what it says, and seems to work fine. The big problem is that it by default is wide open to anyone to pull your files off your device, and even if you secure it with a password it is trivial to snoop the password since it is broadcast in plain text.

102 of 120 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great app for getting files onto my phone April 10, 2011

By Paul Morgan

On EVO:

The top feature of this app is the ability to send files to my phone while my phone is anywhere in the house (as long as the phone's wifi is on, of course).

When I work out, I like to watch shows I've downloaded from my Tivo on my phone. But trudging downstairs to hook up the phone and wait for the files to transfer was such a hassle. This program works flawlessly. My main computer is downstairs (where the Tivo'd content ends up after transcoding), but most of my life is lived upstairs, where my phone usually is. I can jump on my wife's laptop and send shows from my computer downstairs to my phone upstairs, and I'm ready to roll the next day.

I highly recommend this app and this developer. The app was recently updated with some killer new features.

One caveat: I also had this app on my Hero and it didn't work well. But that was because of the defective wifi in the Hero. Depending on the size of the files (mine are about 290MB per), you really need a stable wifi connection in your house and on your phone. Any hiccup that interrupts the connection will cause file transfers to fail.

About the only thing I wish this app could do is initiate transfers FROM the phone. As far as I know, that feature doesn't exist in any app yet. So for now, this is a key app on my EVO.