Network Browser

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4.3
19.2K reviews
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Network Browser is a simple file manager/browser utility for browsing files on your Windows network. It can connect to standard Windows or Samba shares. Use it to browse files on your Samba shares, view pictures, play network music, watch videos that you are on your network, etc.

Presently, Network Browser should be able to connect to most Microsoft Windows or Linux and Mac OSX smb samba network shared folders. You need to know the IP address of the network server you are trying to connect to. You can connect as guest, or supply your username and password.

You can also open files that you find on your network. Tapping on a file will open it in the default editor on your Android system. Currently saving and uploading is not supported, but if there is interest in the project I can certainly work to add these features.

Network Browser now supports music and video streaming over the network! The current release only supports mp3 format for music and m4v and mp4 formats for videos, but I plan on adding support for more media formats in the future. Give it a try and let me know which formats you want me to work on next! Network Browser can now be your ultimate home network media streaming app!

Network Browser now supports Android TV! Stream videos from your network straight onto your Android TV device.

Network Browser is for you guys, so if there is any interest in this project, I will add any features that you want or request. With time and effort this could be a fully functional network file manager and Windows Networking app, but if there is no interest in the project then I will not put the time into it. Just let me know!

Network Browser relies on functionality from the JCIFS library, which can be found here:
https://jcifs.samba.org/
Updated on
Mar 7, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
15.3K reviews
A Google user
October 28, 2019
So far so good. I was looking for a file exploring app for my new Sony Android smart TV but most of the normal file explorer apps didn't work too well with Android TV. I took the chance and downloaded Network Browser and it works great so far with Android TV. I was especially interested in viewing files on my 3TB WD NAS Hard drive. This drive is a few years old and the only think I could really use it for is backup storage since the WD apps and software are so slow etc. I can say that Network Browser and Android TV solves this problem. Now I can view pictures and watch video and movies right from the NAS drive without any problems. I've been looking for a solution to this for a long time. With my new Android TV and Network Browser problem solved. I have the donate version and will edit this review as I use more of the features. I can say it would be nice to connect to the server's name instead of it's IP address. Not a huge problem as I'm technical and know the IP address of all my devices. Keep up the good work and see if you can add more Android TV functions.
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Manda M.
December 30, 2020
For a day or two this worked great but for some unknown reason now when ever I try to watch a video off my home media server on my home wifi via any other app the video at exactly 2 minutes stops as if it's loading. The only fix is to rotate the video from portrait to side & back. EVERY. 2. MINUTES! It's unusable. The internal video app does not do this yet but also does not have captions so not an ideal solution. I really need captions.
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Griffin Fuller
January 24, 2022
As of today, this app is not functioning. Each time I click to activate it, it immediately reverts to my home screen. Any reasoning towards this issue would be appreciated. However, I do find it to be a reliable means to access, download, and upload tons of information on my phone as one would on a computer, perhaps in a network drive. I would suggest adding the option to upload multiple documents at once.
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bug fixes