When comparing X-Plore vs AntTek Explorer Ex, the Slant community recommends X-Plore for most people. In the question“What are the best file explorers on Android?” X-Plore is ranked 7th while AntTek Explorer Ex is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose X-Plore is:
Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Mega, OneDrive, MediaFire, Amazon Cloud, SugarSync and others
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Pros
Pro Access to FTP, FTPS, SMB (Windows share) and cloud storage servers
Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Mega, OneDrive, MediaFire, Amazon Cloud, SugarSync and others
Pro Disk Map
Pro Dual-pane tree view
Pro View APK files as ZIP
Pro Ability to map network shares
Pro Application manager
Pro Opens archives (zip, rar, 7z, etc)
Pro Can add shortcuts to frequently used folders
Pro Beautifully designed
The Holo like UI looks nice as well as operates fluidly with all of the built in features such as the dual pane view.
Pro Themes
AntTek Explorer Ex has light and dark themes built into the app as well as support for outside themes.
Pro It can zip and unzip
AntTek Explorer Ex has built in .zip file support for compressing and .zip and .rar support for uncompressing files.
Pro Can browse network and cloud files
There is no need to connect a phone to a computer via USB nor a reason to keep all files on the device itself.
Cons
Con Visuals
Con SMB support is limited and speed is an issue
SMB support has trouble with larger files. The app also has speed issues when navigating.