A new yet-to-be-released Google file management app helps keep your phone clutter free

It might come this week, in the next month, or somewhere down the line, but Google seems to have a new app it’s working on to help you manage the mess of files you have on your phone. We all know how files can wreak havoc later on when it comes to your phone’s performance. The app called Google Files Go has shown up on the Play Store but as Android Authority reports, you can’t just yet. A message says the app is part of an early access program that’s currently full. The screenshots above show what you can do with it though. It can do things like suggest apps to delete in case you haven’t used them for a while.  It’ll also help you find duplicate files or images stored on your phone as well as view all your files and filter these by source.

On top of that, the app is also making it easier to transfer files to someone else’s phone even while offline. It seems Google Files Go is part of the company’s Android Go program, which is designed to offer the Android experience to phones with as low as 512MB RAM and those with little onboard storage. It makes sense that this feature will be made available to them. Again, we don’t know anything past these features and there is also the possibility that only Android Go devices will gain access to it. We just now have to wait and see.

Windows Phone to get an official file manager by month’s end

An official file manager is sorely missing on the Windows Phone. But that might change very soon if we are to take Joe Belfiore’s word for it. The head of Windows Phone at Microsoft said in a recent “Ask me Anything” on Reddit that their team is hoping to release their file manager by the end of the month. Belfiore even showed screenshots to authenticate this feature. There are third-party file managers out there but it is always better to work with an official one baked into the system already.

Source: Engadget

Access multiple Dropbox accounts on Android with B1 File Manager

The Dropbox app for Android only lets you access one Dropbox account at a time. But what if you have more? B1 File Manager lets you access multiple Dropbox accounts at a time. You can do so through the “Add Network” option. This will prompt you to sign into a Dropbox account to setup. Once that is done, you can tap it again to add another account. However, this file manager doesn’t offer local sync though. But it makes it easier for you to transfer or delete files in your Dropbox accounts.

Source: Lifehacker