Then, there was this craptastic program. The lion kingdom long dreamed of a way to manage a phone's filesystem in a browser instead of ADB, to download & upload files without ADB.

After many years, the desire finally hit critical mass, there was enough time without commuting, & the deed was done. It's 25 year old HTML, no javascript, no AJAX, no jquery, no node.js, no react.js, no angular.js, & would never get a job, but it does the job. There's no security. It's fast when it works & easy to manetain, like all web applications 25 years ago.

A key difference with past lion programs is this one doesn't run in the background.  Once it's cleared from the app manager, the server is gone.

There are a few limitations.

It can't create symbolic links, since lions have never needed a symbolic link on a phone.

The phone has to be rebooted occasionally, as Android has memory leaks which cause the network performance to get slower & slower.

It can't write to external storage.  Android has dropped any support for writing to an SD card from a user program.  It can only read.

There was originally a desire to sort by size & date, but the kind of file operations lions have done so far have been too simple to justify it.

https://github.com/heroineworshiper/webphone

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11/15/24

It grew quite a bit since 2020, gaining an edit function, sorting. The next frontier is a dual copy function. 1 copy function would copy the selected files to the same directory with different names. Another copy function would copy the selected files to another directory.